Jack Johnson is a Dandy
Author : Jack Johnson
Publisher : New American Library of Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 12,26 MB
Release : 1969
Category : African American boxers
ISBN :
Author : Jack Johnson
Publisher : New American Library of Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 12,26 MB
Release : 1969
Category : African American boxers
ISBN :
Author : Jack Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Boxers (Sports)
ISBN :
Author : Randy Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 1985-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0029269008
When Jack Johnson defeated white heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries in 1910, it was America's notions of racial superiority that staggered under his blows. Amid riots and lynchings, the search began for the Great White Hope who could put the "uppity" new champion in his place. Here is the startling true story of the most famous--and most hated--black American of his day. "Papa Jack" takes us into a violent and sordid world. It is an astonishing tale of black defiance--and white retribution--set against the dramatic canvas of sports and spectacle in Jim Crow America.
Author : David K. Wiggins
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1557288763
The original essays in this comprehensive collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so-famous African American male and female athletes from the nineteenth century to today. Here are twenty insightful biographies that furnish perspectives on the changing status of these athletes and how these changes mirrored the transformation of sports, American society, and civil rights legislation. Some of the athletes discussed include Marshall Taylor (bicycling), William Henry Lewis (football), Jack Johnson, Satchel Paige, Jesse Owens, Joe Lewis, Alice Coachman (track and field), Althea Gibson (tennis), Wilma Rudolph, Bill Russell, Jim Brown, Arthur Ashe, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Venus and Serena Williams.
Author : Davarian L. Baldwin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807887609
As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other black cultural and communal institutions. Davarian Baldwin argues that this mass consumer marketplace generated a vibrant intellectual life and planted seeds of political dissent against the dehumanizing effects of white capitalism. Pushing the traditional boundaries of the Harlem Renaissance to new frontiers, Baldwin identifies a fresh model of urban culture rich with politics, ingenuity, and entrepreneurship. Baldwin explores an abundant archive of cultural formations where an array of white observers, black cultural producers, critics, activists, reformers, and black migrant consumers converged in what he terms a "marketplace intellectual life." Here the thoughts and lives of Madam C. J. Walker, Oscar Micheaux, Andrew "Rube" Foster, Elder Lucy Smith, Jack Johnson, and Thomas Dorsey emerge as individual expressions of a much wider spectrum of black political and intellectual possibilities. By placing consumer-based amusements alongside the more formal arenas of church and academe, Baldwin suggests important new directions for both the historical study and the constructive future of ideas and politics in American life.
Author : J.J. Parkerc
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1664111247
To some, Jack Johnson was uppity. To others, he was a troublemaker. He was really an extraordinary man who wanted to be treated like a normal man. But White America wouldn't do it....
Author : United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Publisher :
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Archival resources
ISBN :
Author : Aaron Lefkovitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319770136
This book, on Jimi Hendrix’s life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with a particular emphasis on Hendrix’s relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation. Hendrix, an itinerant “Gypsy” and “Voodoo child” whose racialized “freak” visual image continues to internationally circulate, exploited the exoticism of his race, gender, and sexuality and Gypsy and Voodoo transnational political cultures and religion. Aaron E. Lefkovitz argues that Hendrix can be located in a legacy of black-transnational popular musicians, from Chuck Berry to the hip hop duo Outkast, confirming while subverting established white supremacist and hetero-normative codes and conventions. Focusing on Hendrix’s transnational biography and centrality to US and international visual cultural and popular music histories, this book links Hendrix to traditions of blackface minstrelsy, international freak show spectacles, black popular music’s global circulation, and visual-cultural racial, gender, and sexual stereotypes, while noting Hendrix’s place in 1960s countercultural, US-exceptionalist, cultural Cold War, and rock histories.
Author : Al-Tony Gilmore
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,19 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Boxing
ISBN :
Author : Aaron Lefkovitz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 1498567525
This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture.