Jack Johnson, rebel sojourner [[electronic resource] ] : boxing in the shadow of the global color line / / Theresa Runstedtler
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Runstedtler Theresa
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| Titolo: |
Jack Johnson, rebel sojourner [[electronic resource] ] : boxing in the shadow of the global color line / / Theresa Runstedtler
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 796.83092 |
| B | |
| Soggetto topico: | Boxers (Sports) - United States |
| African American boxers | |
| Boxing - United States - History | |
| Racism in sports | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations History |
| Soggetto non controllato: | 20th century |
| american history | |
| black athletes | |
| cape town | |
| engaging | |
| famous african americans | |
| famous boxers | |
| fighting | |
| fights | |
| gender roles | |
| global color line | |
| havana | |
| history | |
| human condition | |
| interracial love | |
| jack johnson | |
| london | |
| masculinity | |
| mexico city | |
| nonfiction | |
| paris | |
| race historians | |
| racism | |
| rebel sojourner | |
| retrospective | |
| slave descendants | |
| social history | |
| sports biographies | |
| sports historians | |
| sydney | |
| texas | |
| white supremacy | |
| world heavyweight champion | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Embodying Empire -- 2. White Censors, Dark Screens: The Jeffries-Johnson Fight Film Controversy -- 3. Jack Johnson versus John Bull: The Rise of the British Boxing Colour Bar -- 4. The Black Atlantic from Below: African American Boxers and the Search for Exile -- 5. Trading Race: Black Bodies and French Regeneration -- 6. Viva Johnson! Fighting over Race in the Americas -- 7. The Empire Strikes Back: The "French Jack Johnson" and the Rising Tide of Color -- Epilogue: Visible Men, Harmless Icons -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In his day, Jack Johnson-born in Texas, the son of former slaves-was the most famous black man on the planet. As the first African American World Heavyweight Champion (1908-1915), he publicly challenged white supremacy at home and abroad, enjoying the same audacious lifestyle of conspicuous consumption, masculine bravado, and interracial love wherever he traveled. Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner provides the first in-depth exploration of Johnson's battles against the color line in places as far-flung as Sydney, London, Cape Town, Paris, Havana, and Mexico City. In relating this dramatic story, Theresa Runstedtler constructs a global history of race, gender, and empire in the early twentieth century. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Jack Johnson, rebel sojourner |
| ISBN: | 1-280-11671-4 |
| 9786613521002 | |
| 0-520-95228-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790020803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
American crossroads ; ; 33.