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

Horne, Gerald

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

Synopsis

"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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About the Author

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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Publisher
Intl Pub Co Inc
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0717808297
ISBN 13 
9780717808298
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
329