I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 (Sport and Society) by Louis Moore

I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 (Sport and Society)

Louis Moore

240 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction sports challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
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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...

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