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I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 (Sport and Society)

Louis Moore

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 (Sport and Society). To get started finding I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 (Sport and Society), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 (Sport and Society). To get started finding I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 (Sport and Society), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 (Sport and Society)

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