Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Boxing's popularity remains well below that of professional football, National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) racing, baseball, and golf; in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, though sometimes banned by state laws, it periodically received great public attention....

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of American History 2006, Vol.93 (3), p.976-977
1. Verfasser: Edelstein, Tilden G.
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
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Athletes
Boxing
Burns, Ken
Documentary films
Jackson, Samuel L
Jones, James Earl
London, Jack
Louis, Joe (1914-81)
Marsalis, Wynton
Motion pictures
Movie Reviews
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Zusammenfassung:Boxing's popularity remains well below that of professional football, National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) racing, baseball, and golf; in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, though sometimes banned by state laws, it periodically received great public attention. Despite few extant close-up pictures, Burns shows how boxing's physical brutality exceeds that of any other sport, with athletes confronting each other unshielded by protective uniforms and helmets.
ISSN:0021-8723
1945-2314
DOI:10.2307/4486586