Battling Siki

Battling Siki
Author: Peter Benson
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2008-07-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781557288882


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Battling Siki (1887–1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. Peter Benson’s lively biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of sports, race, colonialism, and the cult of personality in the early twentieth century.


Battling Siki
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Peter Benson
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-01 - Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

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Battling Siki (1887–1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, includin
Battling Siki
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Peter Benson
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-01 - Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

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Battling Siki (1887–1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, includin
Battling Siki
Language: fr
Pages: 189
Authors: Jean-Marie Bretagne
Categories: Boxers (Sports)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:

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A 8 ans, cet enfant du Sénégal est kidnappé par une danseuse hollandaise, qui l'emmène à Marseille. Vite abandonné, il commence une carrière précoce de
Boxing
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Gerald R. Gems
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-13 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Sports fans have long been fascinated with boxing and the brutal demonstration of physical and psychological conflict. Accounts of the sport appear as far back
Blacks in Blackface
Language: en
Pages: 1573
Authors: Henry T. Sampson
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-30 - Publisher: Scarecrow Press

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Published in 1980, Blacks in Blackface was the first and most extensive book up to that time to deal exclusively with every aspect of all-African American music