A Tiger In The Ring And A Pussycat Outside

Author : Andrew M. Kaye
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082032910X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pussycat of Prizefighting written by Andrew M. Kaye and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1926, Atlanta's Theodore “Tiger” Flowers became the first African-American boxer to win the world middleweight title. The next year, he was dead. More than an account of Flowers's remarkable achievements, the book is a penetrating analysis of the cultural and historical currents that defined the terms of Flowers's success. Through the prism of prizefighting, the author reveals the personal cost African-Americans faced as they attempted to earn black respect while escaping white hostility.

Author : Barbara Harris Combs
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820362379
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies out of Place written by Barbara Harris Combs and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bodies out of Place asserts that anti-Black racism is not better than it used to be; it is just performed in more-nuanced ways. Barbara Harris Combs argues that racism is dynamic, so new theories are needed to help expose it. The Bodies-out-of-Place (BOP) theory she advances in the book offers such a corrective lens. Interrogating several recent racialized events—the Central Park birding incident, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, sleeping while Black occurrences, and others—Combs demonstrates how the underlying belief that undergirds each encounter is a false presumption that Black bodies in certain contexts are out of place. Within these examples she illustrates how, even amid professions to color-blindness, fixed attitudes about where Black bodies belong, in what positions, at what time, and with whom still predominate. Combs describes a long historical pattern of White pushback against Black advancement and illuminates how each of the various forms of pushback is aimed at social control and regulation of Black bodies. She describes overt and covert attempts to push Black bodies back into their presumed place in U.S. society. While the pushback takes many forms, each works to paint a narrative to justify, rationalize, and excuse continuing violence against Black bodies. Equally important, Combs celebrates the resilient Black agency that has resisted this subjugation.

Author : Randy Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465079709
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Brothers written by Randy Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitle in pre-publication: The fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X.

Author : Robert S McElvaine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1950994120
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Times They Were a-Changin' written by Robert S McElvaine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning historian on the transformative year in the sixties that continues to reverberate in our lives and politics—for readers of Heather Cox Richardson. If 1968 marked a turning point in a pivotal decade, 1964—or rather, the long 1964, from JFK’s assassination in November 1963 to mid-1965—was the time when the sixties truly arrived. It was then that the United States began a radical shift toward a much more inclusive definition of “American,” with a greater degree of equality and a government actively involved in social and economic improvement. It was a radical shift accompanied by a cultural revolution. The same month Bob Dylan released his iconic ballad “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” January 1964, President Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty. Spurred by the civil rights movement and a generation pushing for change, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and the Immigration and Nationality Act were passed during this period. This was a time of competing definitions of freedom. Freedom from racism, freedom from poverty. White youth sought freedoms they associated with black culture, captured imperfectly in the phrase “sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll.” Along with freedom from racist oppression, black Americans sought the opportunities associated with the white middle class: “white freedom.” Women challenged rigid gender roles. And in response to these freedoms, the changing mores, and youth culture, the contrary impulse found political expression in such figures as Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, proponents of what was presented as freedom from government interference. Meanwhile, a nonevent in the Tonkin Gulf would accelerate the nation's plunge into the Vietnam tragedy. In narrating 1964’s moment of reckoning, when American identity began to be reimagined, McElvaine ties those past battles to their legacy today. Throughout, he captures the changing consciousness of the period through its vibrant music, film, literature, and personalities.

Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118609409
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to American Sport History written by Steven A. Riess and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to American Sport History presents acollection of original essays that represent the firstcomprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing fieldof American sport history. Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarshiprelating to the academic history of American sport Features contributions from many of the finest scholars workingin the field of American sport history Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonialtimes to the present day, including major sports such as baseball,football, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and trackand field Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanization,technology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sportsbiography Awarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)

Author : David K. Wiggins
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815627340
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glory Bound written by David K. Wiggins and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American athletes have experienced a tumultuous relationship with mainstream white America. Glory Bound brings together for the first time eleven essays that explore this complex topic. In his writings, well-known sports scholar David K. Wiggins recounts the struggle of black athletes to participate fully in sports while maintaining their own cultural identity and pride. Wiggins examines the seminal moments that defined and changed the black athlete's role in white America from the nineteenth century to the present: the personal crusade of Wendell Smith to promote black participation in organized baseball, the triumph of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics and the proposed boycott of the Games, and the response of America's black press and community. Glory Bound demonstrates how the civil rights movement changed the face of American athletics and society forever. With the genesis of the black power movement in sport, Wiggins notes a significant shift in black—and white—America's attention to the African American athlete.

Author : Benita Heiskanen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113631413X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Urban Geography of Boxing written by Benita Heiskanen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport, a bodily labor, a lucrative business, a popular entertainment, and an instrument of ideology. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with Latino boxers, women boxers, and boxing insiders in Texas, it discusses boxing from the vantage point of the sundry players, who are involved with it: the labor force, promoters, handlers, ringside officials, medical professionals, media, and the audiences. The various parties have multiple stakes in the sport. For some, boxing is about physical empowerment; others are in it for the money; some deploy it for ideological purposes; yet others use it to claim their 15-minutes of fame, and frequently the various interests overlap. In this book, Benita Heiskanen makes a broader connection between boxing and the spatial organization of racialized, class-based, and gendered bodies within particular urban geographies. Journeying actual sites where the sport is organized, such as the barrio, boxing gym, and competition venues, she maps the ways in which boxing insiders negotiate a variety of conflicting agendas at local, regional, and national scales. Beyond the United States, the worker-athletes conduct their labor within global socioeconomic conditions, business networks, and legal principles. Through this sporting context, Heiskanen’s discussion discloses some complex socio-historical, cultural, and political power relations between urban margins and centers, with ramifications far beyond boxing. This book will be of interest to readers in Sport Studies, Cultural Studies, Cultural Geography, Gender Studies, Critical Race Theory, Labor Studies, and American Studies.

Author : Alan H. Levy
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786439505
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Floyd Patterson written by Alan H. Levy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-09-22 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floyd Patterson delivered a number of knockout punches during his Hall of Fame career, but it might have been the fights he won outside the ring that made him great. Born in 1935, he overcame poverty and prejudice to become the youngest world heavyweight champion in history--and he would later become the first man to regain the crown after losing it. Muhammad Ali called Patterson the most skillful fighter he ever faced. This first complete biography of the former heavyweight champion covers Patterson's meteoric rise as a boxer while giving equal attention to his life away from sport, including his work as a civil rights activist in the 1960s. Joining Ali and Joe Frazier as boxers who used their celebrity to bring attention to social issues, he became an icon of the movement.

Author : Samantha N. Sheppard
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520307798
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sporting Blackness written by Samantha N. Sheppard and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on screen. By presenting new critical terms, Sheppard analyzes not only “skin in the game,” or how racial representation shapes the genre’s imagery, but also “skin in the genre,” or the formal consequences of blackness on the sport film genre’s modes, codes, and conventions. Through a rich interdisciplinary approach, Sheppard argues that representations of Black sporting bodies contain “critical muscle memories”: embodied, kinesthetic, and cinematic histories that go beyond a film’s plot to index, circulate, and reproduce broader narratives about Black sporting and non-sporting experiences in American society.

Author : Maurice Berger
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300121318
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For All the World to See written by Maurice Berger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In collaboration with: Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C."