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Battling Siki
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Author : Peter Benson
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2008-07-01
Battling Siki written by Peter Benson and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Battling Siki (1887–1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. Peter Benson’s lively biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of sports, race, colonialism, and the cult of personality in the early twentieth century.
Battling Siki
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Author : Peter Benson
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2008-07-01
Battling Siki written by Peter Benson and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Battling Siki (1887–1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. Peter Benson’s lively biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of sports, race, colonialism, and the cult of personality in the early twentieth century.
Battling Siki
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Author : Jean-Marie Bretagne
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Battling Siki written by Jean-Marie Bretagne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Boxers (Sports) categories.
A 8 ans, cet enfant du Sénégal est kidnappé par une danseuse hollandaise, qui l'emmène à Marseille. Vite abandonné, il commence une carrière précoce de boxeur, interrompue par la Première Guerre mondiale. Rescapé des tranchées, il retourne sur les rings, où il affronte le héros du sport français, Georges Carpentier, qu'il bat en 1922 à la surprise générale. Mais ce match, qui le sacre champion du monde, causera aussi son malheur : pour défendre l'idole nationale, on accuse bientôt Siki de tricherie, et les journaux se déchaînent contre ce " championzé ", symbole de la " dangereuse " race noire. À l'inverse, de rares intellectuels prennent sa défense et en font le champion des opprimés. Il n'a d'autre choix que de partir boxer aux États-Unis, où la presse l'attaque encore plus violemment. Siki rend coup pour coup. " Vous avez une statue de la Liberté ici, déclare-t-il, mais c'est un mensonge. " Provoquant les autorités, il se promène en cape rouge sur Broadway, un singe sur l'épaule, et se marie avec une Américaine blanche, sans avoir divorcé de sa première épouse. Trop de vagues, trop de défis : il est assassiné de trois coups de revolver, le 16 décembre 1925, à Harlem. II n'a pas trente ans. Battling Siki... Une vie brève et magnifique, faite de légendes et de combats. La vie d'un homme décidé à garder la tête haute. À n'importe quel prix.
French Colonial Documentary
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Author : Peter J. Bloom
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2008
French Colonial Documentary written by Peter J. Bloom and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Social Science categories.
Despite altruistic goals, humanitarianism often propagates foreign, and sometimes unjust, power structures where it is employed. Tracing the visual rhetoric of French colonial humanitarianism, Peter J. Bloom's unexpected analysis reveals how the project of remaking the colonies in the image of France was integral to its national identity. French Colonial Documentary investigates how the promise of universal citizenship rights in France was projected onto the colonies as a form of evolutionary interventionism. Bloom focuses on the promotion of French education efforts, hygienic reform, and new agricultural techniques in the colonies as a means of renegotiating the social contract between citizens and the state on an international scale. Bloom's insightful readings disclose the pervasiveness of colonial iconography, including the relationship between "natural man" and colonial subjectivity; representations of the Senegalese Sharpshooters as obedient, brave, and sexualized colonial subjects; and the appeal of exotic adventure narratives in the trans-Saharan film genre. Examining the interconnection between French documentary realism and the colonial enterprise, Bloom demonstrates how the colonial archive is crucial to contemporary Peter J. Bloom is associate professor of film and media studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara.y debates about multiculturalism in France.
The First Black Boxing Champions
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Author : Colleen Aycock
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
The First Black Boxing Champions written by Colleen Aycock and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Sports & Recreation categories.
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.
Looking At The Stars
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Author : Carrie Teresa
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2019-06-01
Looking At The Stars written by Carrie Teresa and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-01 with Social Science categories.
As early as 1900, when moving-picture and recording technologies began to bolster entertainment-based leisure markets, journalists catapulted entertainers to godlike status, heralding their achievements as paragons of American self-determination. Not surprisingly, mainstream newspapers failed to cover black entertainers, whose “inherent inferiority” precluded them from achieving such high cultural status. Yet those same celebrities came alive in the pages of black press publications written by and for members of urban black communities. In Looking at the Stars Carrie Teresa explores the meaning of celebrity as expressed by black journalists writing against the backdrop of Jim Crow–era segregation. Teresa argues that journalists and editors working for these black-centered publications, rather than simply mimicking the reporting conventions of mainstream journalism, instead framed celebrities as collective representations of the race who were then used to symbolize the cultural value of artistic expression influenced by the black diaspora and to promote political activism through entertainment. The social conscience that many contemporary entertainers of color exhibit today arguably derives from the way black press journalists once conceptualized the symbolic role of “celebrity” as a tool in the fight against segregation. Based on a discourse analysis of the entertainment content of the period’s most widely read black press newspapers, Looking at the Stars takes into account both the institutional perspectives and the discursive strategies used in the selection and framing of black celebrities in the context of Jim Crowism.
Beyond The Ring
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Author : Jeffrey T. Sammons
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1990
Beyond The Ring written by Jeffrey T. Sammons and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Boxing categories.
Documents the ruin waiting for almost all those ill-advised enough to become professional boxers. The author confirms the legends, of crime, of swindling, of the miserable economic rewards allotted to the vast majority of fighters, and the traditional racism of the American ring.
Redemption Song
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Author : Mike Marqusee
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2016-06-07
Redemption Song written by Mike Marqusee and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-07 with Sports & Recreation categories.
When Muhammad Ali died, many mourned the life of the greatest sportsman the world had ever seen. In Redemption Song, Mike Marqusee argues that Ali was not just a boxer but a remarkable political figure in a decade of tumultuous change. Playful, popular, always confrontational, Ali refashioned the role of a political activist and was central, alongside figures such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, to the black liberation and the anti-war movements. Marqusee shows that sport and politics were always intertwined, and this is the reason why Ali remained an international beacon of hope, long after he had left the ring.
Dictionary Of African Biography
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Author : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-02-02
Dictionary Of African Biography written by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).
My Black Stars
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Author : Lilian Thuram
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-15
My Black Stars written by Lilian Thuram and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-15 with Social Science categories.
People, young and old, need stars to guide them. They need models to construct their own identity, to build their self-esteem, to change the way they see the world and to overcome their own and others’ prejudice. During my childhood, many stars were pointed out to me. I admired them, dreamt about them: Socrates, Baudelaire, Einstein, Marie Curie, General de Gaulle, Mother Teresa... But nobody ever spoke to me about black stars. The world of my education was white, from the colour of the school walls to the pages of my textbooks. I knew nothing about my own ancestors. Slavery was the only black subject ever mentioned. In this vision, the history of Black people could only ever be a vale of tears and strife. Can you tell me the name of a black scientist? A black explorer? A black philosopher? A black pharaoh? If you don’t know the answer to these questions, then, whatever the colour of your skin, this book is for you. Because the best way to fight racism and intolerance is to educate ourselves and to broaden our imaginations. The portraits of the men and women in this book are a product of my own reading and my interviews with scholars. Starting with Lucy and ending with Barack Obama, and along the way meeting Aesop, Dona Béatrice, Pushkin, Anne Zingha, Aimé Césaire, Martin Luther King and many others. These stars have allowed me to reject the idea that I am a victim, to renew my faith in mankind and, above all, to believe in myself. - Lilian Thuram This translation of Lilian Thuram’s bestselling 2010 volume, Mes Etoiles Noires, by Laurent Dubois (University of Virginia), finally brings his anti-racism work to the attention of an English-language audience (the book has already been translated into several European languages). At a time when the Black Lives Matter movement has reminded us of the need to tell more complex stories about our shared past, this volume constitutes a timely intervention by a prominent black sporting figure.