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I Fight for a Living - Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 (Hardcover)
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I Fight for a Living - Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 (Hardcover)
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The black prizefighter labored in one of the few trades where an
African American man could win renown: boxing. His prowess in the
ring asserted an independence and powerful masculinity rare for
black men in a white-dominated society, allowing him to be a
man--and thus truly free. Louis Moore draws on the life stories of
African American fighters active from 1880 to 1915 to explore
working-class black manhood. As he details, boxers bought into
American ideas about masculinity and free enterprise to prove their
equality while using their bodies to become self-made men. The
African American middle class, meanwhile, grappled with an
expression of public black maleness they saw related to
disreputable leisure rather than respectable labor. Moore shows how
each fighter conformed to middle-class ideas of masculinity based
on his own judgment of what culture would accept. Finally, he
argues that African American success in the ring shattered the myth
of black inferiority despite media and government efforts to defend
white privilege.
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