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Beyond the Ring

- The Role of Boxing in American Society
Af: Jeffrey T. Sammons Engelsk Paperback

Beyond the Ring

- The Role of Boxing in American Society
Af: Jeffrey T. Sammons Engelsk Paperback
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Primitive, dangerous, low-paying, crooked, exploitive--boxing, in all but a few cases, offered its athletes very little while taking everything. Why does boxing exist? What accounted for its decades-long popularity? What does its presence on the sport history landscape say about America? 

Jeffrey T. Sammons looks at how boxing reflected the society that fostered it at different points in history. In the time of John L. Sullivan, the sport provided an arena for testing law, order, and social growth. Jack Johnson''s career reflected the racism, nationalism, and xenophobia of the Progressive era. At its popular peak in the 1920s, boxing expressed tensions as disparate as the tug-of-war between modernism and tradition and the women''s rights movement. From there, Sammons traces how the sport intertwined with Nazi antisemitism, reflected the hopes of the New Deal, produced the seminal figure Joe Louis, and stood at the nexus of the union of organized crime with business and television. Finally, he shows how Muhammad Ali and reactions to him exposed the shifting tides of racial issues and American involvement in Vietnam.

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Primitive, dangerous, low-paying, crooked, exploitive--boxing, in all but a few cases, offered its athletes very little while taking everything. Why does boxing exist? What accounted for its decades-long popularity? What does its presence on the sport history landscape say about America? 

Jeffrey T. Sammons looks at how boxing reflected the society that fostered it at different points in history. In the time of John L. Sullivan, the sport provided an arena for testing law, order, and social growth. Jack Johnson''s career reflected the racism, nationalism, and xenophobia of the Progressive era. At its popular peak in the 1920s, boxing expressed tensions as disparate as the tug-of-war between modernism and tradition and the women''s rights movement. From there, Sammons traces how the sport intertwined with Nazi antisemitism, reflected the hopes of the New Deal, produced the seminal figure Joe Louis, and stood at the nexus of the union of organized crime with business and television. Finally, he shows how Muhammad Ali and reactions to him exposed the shifting tides of racial issues and American involvement in Vietnam.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 376
ISBN-13: 9780252061455
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0252061454
Kategori: Regionale studier
Udg. Dato: 1 jul 1990
Længde: 30mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: University of Illinois Press
Oplagsdato: 1 jul 1990
Forfatter(e): Jeffrey T. Sammons
Forfatter(e) Jeffrey T. Sammons

Kategori Regionale studier

ISBN-13 9780252061455

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 376

Udgave

Længde 30mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 1 jul 1990

Oplagsdato 1 jul 1990

Forlag University of Illinois Press

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