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Prizefighting and Civilization - A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840-1940 (Hardcover)
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Prizefighting and Civilization - A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840-1940 (Hardcover)
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In Prizefighting and Civilization: A Cultural History of Boxing,
Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840-1940, historian
David C. LaFevor traces the history of pugilism in Mexico and Cuba
from its controversial beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century
through its exponential rise in popularity during the early
twentieth century. A divisive subculture that was both a profitable
blood sport and a contentious public spectacle, boxing provides a
unique vantage point from which LaFevor examines the deeper
historical evolution of national identity, everyday normative
concepts of masculinity and race, and an expanding and
democratizing public sphere in both Mexico and Cuba, the United
States' closest Latin American neighbors. Prizefighting and
Civilization explores the processes by which boxing--once
considered an outlandish purveyor of low culture--evolved into a
nationalized pillar of popular culture, a point of pride that
transcends gender, race, and class.
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