I Fight for a Living Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood 1880 1915 1st edition by Louis Moore 0252082877 9780252082870

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ISBN 10:0252082877
ISBN 13:9780252082870
Author:Louis Moore
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.

I Fight for a Living Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood 1880 1915 1st Table of contents:

1 Bring Home the Bacon: The Black Proletariat and the Prizefighter

2 Race Man or Race Menace? Pugilists, Patriarchy, and Pathology

3 Black Men and the Business of Boxing

4 Colored Championship and Color Lines

5 Sambos, Savages, and the Shakiness of Whiteness

6 Following the Color Line: Progressive Reform and the Fear of the Black Fighter

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