Boxing In Black And White

Author : Andrew Lindsay
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786418008

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Boxing in Black and White by Andrew Lindsay Pdf

Professional sports in America offer numerous examples of equal opportunity and broken down racial barriers. These developments call for pride and celebration. Yet skin color continues to have an influence in how Americans experience sport. From Al Campanis' statement about the under-representation of blacks in baseball front offices to the almost exclusively white ownership of professional teams, one sees that sports, though admirably more equitable than other societal institutions, are hardly a colorblind American pursuit. Choosing the racially charged sport of boxing for investigation, the author has compiled dozens of statistics measuring whether or not America's racial majority still yearns for a white champion--a Great White Hope. Drawing upon data from The Ring Magazine and its annual record books, this study endeavors to bolster or refute the popular perception in boxing circles that white fighters of lesser ability are helped along to their sports elite level, as a result of being promotional gold in the eyes of the public.

Author : Peter Bacho
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 080505779X

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Boxing in Black and White by Peter Bacho Pdf

"Boxing's like an addiction, it just gets in the blood." --Bobby Howard, trainer and ex-middleweight fighter Punch-by punch accounts of key heavyweight fights involving such champions as Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Joe Frazier, and Muhammad Ali reveal the passion and danger of the ring, as well as the impact of what happens there. Peter Bacho makes his living as an author and professor of Asian-American literature, but throughout his life he has been a fight fan, a fighter, a trainer, and a student of boxing. It is those personal experiences that frame this book. Then, while taking readers through the action in the most thrilling prize fights of the century, he shows how those bouts defined the racial and social tension of their times.

Author : Ian Carey
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781456613150

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When Boxing Was, Like, Ridiculously Racist by Ian Carey Pdf

This is the story of the lineage of Boxing's World Heavyweight Championship from 1882-1915 and how it explains a cultural attitude toward race and identity in that era. The first true national and international sports celebrities were boxers in the late 1800s. Soon after the abolishment of slavery in the United States the first World Champions of the sport were crowned. As the Champion of the World these boxing heavyweights were held on a pedestal of athletic dominance, and in the eyes of some white Americans, and many of those in the boxing community, these champions had to be white, anything else would challenge the belief of white Anglo-saxon superiority that many white Americans were clinging to at the time. It is the story of the symbol of the World Champion during that period and what it meant in society. It's also a story about a bunch of tough, bad-ass guys from over a hundred years ago that used to beat each other up.

Author : Brian Dobbs
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178531890X

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Black and White by Brian Dobbs Pdf

Black and White: The Birth of Modern Boxing is the definitive history of the early years of transatlantic pugilism. It reveals the poisonous racism disfiguring the sport and the black boxers fighting an uphill struggle for equality. It lays bare ugly attempts by authorities to stifle or ban a sport that millions flocked to see, and exposes the unethical actions of distinguished figures such as Lord Lonsdale and Sir Winston Churchill. Black and White brings to life some of the greatest fights in history as the narrative charts boxing's growth from underground sleaze to fashionable spectacle. Along the way we hear the stories of the great champions of the era including Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Jimmy Wilde and Ted 'Kid' Lewis. The book culminates in the 'Fight of the Century', where a gallant European and an unpopular American battled for supremacy as the world looked on with trepidation.

Author : Louis Moore
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780252099946

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I Fight for a Living by Louis Moore Pdf

The black prizefighter labored in one of the few trades where an African American man could win renown: boxing. His prowess in the ring asserted an independence and powerful masculinity rare for black men in a white-dominated society, allowing him to be a man--and thus truly free. Louis Moore draws on the life stories of African American fighters active from 1880 to 1915 to explore working-class black manhood. As he details, boxers bought into American ideas about masculinity and free enterprise to prove their equality while using their bodies to become self-made men. The African American middle class, meanwhile, grappled with an expression of public black maleness they saw related to disreputable leisure rather than respectable labor. Moore shows how each fighter conformed to middle class ideas of masculinity based on his own judgment of what culture would accept. Finally, he argues that African American success in the ring shattered the myth of black inferiority despite media and government efforts to defend white privilege.

Author : Melanie Kidd,Max Kandhola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 095602534X

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The Aura of Boxing by Melanie Kidd,Max Kandhola Pdf

Author : Howard Sackler
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573609608

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The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler Pdf

"[The dramatist] has used his hero, a fighter based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson ... as a symbol in part of Black aspiration"--Back cover.

Author : Larry Carli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1611703085

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1950's Boxing in Black and White by Larry Carli Pdf

1950's Boxing takes a close look at the top figures in each major weight division and the author's choice for the fighter, and fight of the decade. Read about popular boxers including Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Marciano, and Archie Moore.

Author : Colleen Aycock,Mark Scott
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786461882

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The First Black Boxing Champions by Colleen Aycock,Mark Scott Pdf

This volume presents fifteen chapters of biography of African American and black champions and challengers of the early prize ring. They range from Tom Molineaux, a slave who won freedom and fame in the ring in the early 1800s; to Joe Gans, the first African American world champion; to the flamboyant Jack Johnson, deemed such a threat to white society that film of his defeat of former champion and "Great White Hope" Jim Jeffries was banned across much of the country. Photographs, period drawings, cartoons, and fight posters enhance the biographies. Round-by-round coverage of select historic fights is included, as is a foreword by Hall-of-Fame boxing announcer Al Bernstein.

Author : Chris Mead
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : IND:30000020671396

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Champion--Joe Louis, Black Hero in White America by Chris Mead Pdf

Author : Donald McRae
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471134722

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In Black And White by Donald McRae Pdf

In 1936 athlete Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics and, two years later, boxer Joe Louis won a crushing victory to become heavyweight champion of the world. Despite their fame and success, both men would find themselves barred from certain hotels and would have to eat outside restaurants because of the colour of their skin. However. by their example, they gave hope to millions of black people around the world as they became the first black superstars. In Donald McRae's William Hill prize-winning dual biography, he compiles a brilliant portrait of the two men, who became close friends despite their very different career paths: within days of Olympic glory, Owens was banned from competing again, and was forced to spend his days racing against horses to earn a living before becoming a spokesman for the sporting ideal. Meanwhile Louis won and lost a fortune, eventually battling with drug addiction and mental illness. His vivid account of their lives away from the public eye, and the era in which they lived, is compelling and tragic.

Author : Gerald Horne
Publisher : International Publishers
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0717808297

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The Bittersweet Science by Gerald Horne Pdf

Based upon exhaustive research in court records, memoirs, the files of the New York State Athletic Commissions and related bodies from Nevada to New Jersey - not to mention the gangster venues from garish Las Vegas to venal South Philadelphia, this pioneering work tells the untold story of the grimy intersection of racism and racketeering in boxing. Revealing previously unrecorded stories of punchers from Jack Johnson to Joe Louis to Sugar Ray Robinson to Muhammad Ali, Horne also details a fascinating story of the waxing and waning of anti-Semitism. Toxic masculinity and other offshoots (including homophobia) are a major theme of this book and the author does not neglect women boxers--and wrestlers too---whose skills were honed in day-to-day battles with the pestilence that is male supremacy. An intriguing chapter concerns--ironically--the mob's chief executive in boxing in the 1950s, when profits piled up because of television broadcasts: Truman Gibson, a Negro, became the "fall guy", however, when a scapegoat was needed to take the blame for the fixed fights, the murderous attacks on those who refused to cooperate and the broken lives of what amounted to desperate workers eager to make a buck to support their starving families. This book traces the story of Black dominance in the sport, from fighting enslavers in Africa, through the brutal "battle royals" of slavery when enslaved men were placed in a ring blindfolded and forced to fight until one man was left standing, while, at the same time, it exposes the gross exploitation of fighters and the gargantuan profits garnered by the likes of Don King, Bob Arum--and a former Atlantic City casino poseur named Donald J. Trump.

Author : James L. Conyers, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786473199

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Race in American Sports by James L. Conyers, Jr. Pdf

These essays critically examine the issue of race in college and professional sports, beginning with the effects of stereotypes on black female college athletes, and the self-handicapping of black male college athletes. Also discussed is the movement of colleges between NCAA designated conferences, and the economic impact and effects on academics for blacks. An essay on baseball focuses on changes in Brooklyn during the Jackie Robinson years, and another essay on how the Leland Giants became a symbol of racial pride. Other essayists discuss the use of American Indian mascots, the Jeremy Lin spectacle surrounding Asians in pro sports, the need to hire more NFL coaches of color, and ideals of black male masculinity in boxing. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Chris Mead
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780486471822

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Joe Louis by Chris Mead Pdf

Known affectionately as "The Brown Bomber," Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship for a record 11 years. Acclaimed as "stunning" by Kirkus Reviews, this is perhaps the best biography of the popular pugilist, recounting his triumphs and tragedies against the background of America in the 1930s and '40s. Includes 14 photographs.

Author : Jason Winders
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781682261774

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George Dixon by Jason Winders Pdf

"Biography of Canadian-born, Boston-raised boxer George Dixon (1870-1908), the first Black world champion of any sport and the first Black world boxing champion in any division"--