Heavyweight
Black Boxers and the Fight for Representation
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Product details:
- Publisher Duke University Press
- Date of Publication 23 August 2024
- Number of Volumes Cloth over boards
- ISBN 9781478026402
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 499 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 73 illustrations, including 8 in color 531
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Long description:
In Heavyweight, Jordana Moore Saggese examines images of Black heavyweight boxers to map the visual terrain of racist ideology in the United States, paying particular attention to the intersecting discourses of Blackness, masculinity, and sport. Looking closely at the ?shadow archive? of portrayals across fine art, vernacular imagery, and public media at the turn of the twentieth century, shedemonstrates how the images of boxers reveal the racist stereotypes implicit in them, many of which continue to structure ideas of Black men today. With a focus on both anonymous fighters and notorious champions, including Jack Johnson, Saggese contends that popular images of these men provided white spectators a way to render themselves experts on Blackness and Black masculinity. These images became the blueprint for white conceptions of the Black male body-existing between fear and fantasy, simultaneously an object of desire and an instrument of violence. Reframing boxing as yet another way whiteness establishes the violent mythology of its supremacy, Saggese highlights the role of imagery in normalizing a culture of anti-Blackness.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface?? ix
Acknowledgments?? xv
Introduction?? 1
1. The Bare-Knuckle Breed?? 33
2. Boxing in the Frame?? 71
3. The Black Prince?? 131
4. Bellow?s Boxers?? 183
Afterword. The Art of Boxing?? 225
Notes?? 237
Bibliography?? 263
Index?? 275
