Rita Liberti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at California State University, Hayward. Her primary research area is twentieth century U.S. women's sport, with her special interest in race and gender issues in 20th century sport. Some of her recent publications include: Liberti, R., Swantek, D., Kunz, M., and Sullivan, S. (2004) Forbidden Narratives¹: Exploring the Use of Critical Autobiography in a Graduate Sport Sociology Course. Quest, 56(2), 190-207; Liberti, R. (2004) “Fostering Community Consciousness: Women¹s Basketball at Black Colleges And Universities, 1900-1950,” in Charles Ross, ed., Race and Sport in the American South (Oxford, MS: The University of Mississippi Press); Liberti, R. (Forthcoming) ³Ruth Glover Mullen,² in Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Eds..African American Lives. (Cambridge: Oxford University Press); Liberti, R. (2004)³”Stephanie Hightower, Lisa Leslie, Pamela McGee, Louise Stokes, Gwen Torrence, Ora Washington, and John Woodruff,”² in David Wiggins, ed., African Americans in Sports (New York: M.E. Sharpe Publishers).