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George Dixon - The Short Life of Boxing's First Black World Champion, 1870-1908 (Paperback)
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George Dixon - The Short Life of Boxing's First Black World Champion, 1870-1908 (Paperback)
Series: Sport, Culture, and Society
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On September 6, 1892, a diminutive Black prizefighter brutally
dispatched an overmatched white hope in the New Orleans Carnival of
Champions boxing tournament. That victory sparked celebrations
across Black communities nationwide but fostered unease among
sporting fans and officials, delaying public acceptance of
mixed-race fighting for half a century. This turn echoed the
nation's disintegrating relations between whites and Blacks and
foreshadowed America's embrace of racial segregation.In this work
of sporting and social history we have a biography of
Canadian-born, Boston-raised boxer George Dixon (1870-1908), the
first Black world champion of any sport and the first Black world
boxing champion in any division. George Dixon: The Short Life of
Boxing's First Black World Champion, 1870-1908 chronicles the life
of the most consequential Black athlete of the nineteenth century
and details for the first time his Carnival appearance, perhaps the
most significant bout involving a Black fighter until Jack Johnson
began his reign in 1908. Yet despite his triumphs, Dixon has been
lost to history, overshadowed by Black athletes whose activism
against white supremacy far exceeded his own. George Dixon reveals
the story of a man trapped between the white world he served and
the Black world that worshipped him. By ceding control to a
manipulative white promoter, Dixon was steered through the white
power structure of Gilded Age prizefighting, becoming world famous
and one of North America's richest Black men. Unable to hold on to
his wealth, however, and battered by his vices, a depleted Dixon
was abandoned by his white supporters just as the rising tide of
Jim Crow limited both his prospects and the freedom of Blacks
nationwide.
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