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

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"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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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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