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Author : Chris Mead
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : IND:30000020671396
Author : Chris Mead
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780486471822
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 : David K. Wiggins
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781557288769
The original essays in this comprehensive collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so-famous African American male and female athletes from the nineteenth century to today. Here are twenty insightful biographies that furnish perspectives on the changing status of these athletes and how these changes mirrored the transformation of sports, American society, and civil rights legislation. Some of the athletes discussed include Marshall Taylor (bicycling), William Henry Lewis (football), Jack Johnson, Satchel Paige, Jesse Owens, Joe Lewis, Alice Coachman (track and field), Althea Gibson (tennis), Wilma Rudolph, Bill Russell, Jim Brown, Arthur Ashe, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Venus and Serena Williams.
Author : William Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African American boxers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127768674
An African-American boy idolises world champion prize-fighter Joe Louis as a boxer and a role model.
Author : Frederick V. Romano
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781631440755
Radio and television broadcasting were as important to the growth and popularity of boxing as it was to the reshaping of our very culture. In The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television, Frederick V. Romano explores the many roles that each medium played in both the development and the depiction of the sport. Principal among the topics covered are the ever-changing role of technology during the four-decade-plus period, how it impacted the manner in which the sport was presented to its public audience, the exponential growth of those audiences, and the influence radio and television had on the financial aspects of the sport, including the selective use of radio and television and the financial boom that the mediums created. The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television also assays radio and boxing during World War II, the role of organized crime, and the monopolistic practices during the television era. Romano also presents a detailed account of announcers such as Don Dunphy and Ted Husing who brought the action to the listeners and viewers, the many appearances that boxers including Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, and Rocky Marciano made on radio and television when they were not in the ring, and the mediums’ portrayal of the sport in an array of programming from drama to comedy. This is a must-have for all serious boxing fans.
Author : Marcy S. Sacks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136175015
This insightful study offers a fresh perspective on the life and career of champion boxer Joe Louis. The remarkable success and global popularity of the "Brown Bomber" made him a lightning rod for debate over the role and rights of African Americans in the United States. Historian Marcy S. Sacks traces both Louis’s career and the criticism and commentary his fame elicited to reveal the power of sports and popular culture in shaping American social attitudes. Supported by key contemporary documents, Joe Louis: Sports and Race in Twentieth-Century America is both a succinct introduction to a larger-than-life figure and an essential case study of the intersection of popular culture and race in the mid-century United States.
Author : Randy Roberts
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300168853
A “humbling, inspiring . . . deeply emotional” biography of the boxing legend who held the heavyweight world championship for more than eleven years (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Known as the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis defended his heavyweight title an astonishing twenty-five times. Through the 1930s, he got more column inches of newspaper coverage than President Roosevelt. At a time when the boxing ring was the only venue where black and white could meet on equal terms, Louis embodied Black America’s hope for dignity and equality. And in 1938, his politically charged defeat of German boxer Max Schmeling made Louis a national hero on the world stage. Through meticulous research and first-hand interviews, acclaimed biographer Randy Roberts presents a complete portrait of Louis and his outsized impact on sport and country. Digging beneath the simplistic narratives of heroism and victimization, Roberts reveals an athlete who carefully managed his public image, and whose relationships with both the black and white communities—including his relationships with mobsters—were deeply complex. “Roberts is a fine match with his subject. He supports with powerful evidence his contention that Louis’s impact was enormous and profound.” —The Boston Globe
Author : Charles K. Ross
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781496800299
Even before the desegregation of the military and public education and before blacks had full legal access to voting, racial barriers had begun to fall in American sports. This collection of essays shows that for many African Americans it was the world of athletics that first opened an avenue to equality and democratic involvement. Race and Sport showcases African Americans as key figures making football, baseball, basketball, and boxing internationally popular, though inequalities still exist today. Among the early notables discussed is Fritz Pollard, an African American who played professional football before the National Football League established a controversial color barrier. Another, the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, exemplifies the black American athlete as an international celebrity. African American women also played an important role in bringing down the barriers, especially in the early development of women's basketball. In baseball, both African American and Hispanic players faced down obstacles and entered the sports mainstream after World War II. One essay discusses the international spread of American imperialism through sport. Another shows how mass media images of African American athletes continue to shape public perceptions. Although each of these six essays explores a different facet of sports in America, together they comprise an analytical examination of African American society's tumultuous struggle for full participation both on and off the athletic field.
Author : Lewis A. Erenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780195319996
Lewis A. Erenberg describes a boxing match that transcended the sport to become an iconic event, a symbol of political tensions around the globe. On 22 June 1938, Joe Louis, who had been defeated in 12 rounds by Max Schmeling, won the rematch in just two minutes.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author : Frank N. Magill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1407 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781317740605
Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.
Author : Pamela Grundy,Benjamin G Rader
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315509235
American Sports offers a reflective, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. Readers will focus on the diverse relationships between sports and class, gender, race, ethnicity, religion and region, and understand how these interactions can bind diverse groups together. By considering the economic, social and cultural factors that have surrounded competitive sports, readers will understand how sports have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of society.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : UCR:31210012862460
Author : William L. Van Deburg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0226847160
In the wake of the Kennedy era, a new kind of ethnic hero emerged within African-American popular culture. Stepping out from all walks of life, these pop heroes symbolized both the breadth and the centrality of the Black Power message. In this fascinating book, Van Deburg explores how this heroic came to epitomize a grand and empowering vision. 30 halftones.
Author : David K. Wiggins
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0815627343
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 : James N. Gregory
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807876855
Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white migrants, James Gregory traces their paths and experiences in a comprehensive new study that demonstrates how this regional diaspora reshaped America by "southernizing" communities and transforming important cultural and political institutions. Challenging the image of the migrants as helpless and poor, Gregory shows how both black and white southerners used their new surroundings to become agents of change. Combining personal stories with cultural, political, and demographic analysis, he argues that the migrants helped create both the modern civil rights movement and modern conservatism. They spurred changes in American religion, notably modern evangelical Protestantism, and in popular culture, including the development of blues, jazz, and country music. In a sweeping account that pioneers new understandings of the impact of mass migrations, Gregory recasts the history of twentieth-century America. He demonstrates that the southern diaspora was crucial to transformations in the relationship between American regions, in the politics of race and class, and in the roles of religion, the media, and culture.
