The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering, and the Political Economy of Boxing - Brossura

Horne, Gerald

 
9780717808298: The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering, and the Political Economy of Boxing
Brossura
ISBN 10: 0717808297 ISBN 13: 9780717808298
Casa editrice: Intl Pub Co Inc, 2020

Sinossi

"Based upon exhaustive research in court records, memoirs, the files of the New York State Athletic Commission and related bodies from Nevada to New Jersey - not to mention the gangster venues from garish Las Vegas to venal South Philadelphia, this work tells the untold story of the grimy intersection of racism and racketeering in boxing"--

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Informazioni sull?autore

Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History & African American Studies at the University of Houston. He has published more than three dozen books including "White Supremacy Confronted: US Imperialism & Anticommunism vs the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela", 'The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, and White Supremacy and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean.

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Editore
Intl Pub Co Inc
Data di pubblicazione
2020
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0717808297
ISBN 13 
9780717808298
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
329
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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