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Jack Johnson, rebel sojourner : boxing in the shadow of the global color line / Theresa Runstedtler.
Van Pelt Library GV1132.J7 R86 2012
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Runstedtler, Theresa.
- Series:
- American crossroads ; 33.
- American crossroads ; 33
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Jack, 1878-1946.
- Johnson, Jack.
- Boxers (Sports)--United States--Biography.
- Boxers (Sports).
- African American boxers.
- United States.
- African American boxers--Biography.
- Boxing--United States--History.
- Boxing.
- History.
- Racism in sports.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- 1 Embodying Empire: Jack Johnson and the White Pacific 31
- 2 White Censors, Dark Screens: The Jeffries-Johnson Fight Film Controversy 68
- 3 Jack Johnson versus John Bull: The Rise of the British Boxing Colour Bar 101
- 4 The Black Atlantic from Below: African American Boxers and the Search for Exile 132
- 5 Trading Race: Black Bodies and French Regeneration 164
- 6 Viva Johnson! Fighting over Race in the Americas 196
- 7 The Empire Strikes Back: The "French Jack Johnson" and the Rising Tide of Color 231.
- Notes:
- "George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520271609
- 0520271602
- OCLC:
- 740281681
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