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Lou Moore is a professor, author, and podcaster who studies the intersections of race and sports. He explores topics such as boxing, civil rights, Negro League baseball, and the Black quarterback in his books and lectures.
Dec 13, 2023 · Louis Moore’s I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood is the perfect corrective against that risk, a helpful reminder of the extreme hardships so many prizefighters have had to endure. In his meticulously researched book, Moore presents a lively portrait of the boxing landscape at the turn of the twentieth century, but ...
Sep 11, 2017 · Louis Moore draws on the life stories of African American fighters active from 1880 to 1915 to explore working-class black manhood. As he details, boxers bought into American ideas...
- Louis Moore
- University of Illinois Press, 2017
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Louis Moore examines how African American fighters asserted their manhood and challenged white supremacy in boxing from 1880 to 1915. The book explores the life stories, struggles, and achievements of black prizefighters in a racist America.
Louis Moore. ABC-CLIO, Sep 21, 2017 - Social Science - 233 pages. This exceedingly timely book looks at the history of black activist athletes and the important role of the black community in...
Sep 18, 2020 · Louis Moore, I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880–1915 (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2017, $27.95). Pp. 240. isbn978 0 2520 8287 0. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
The Black AthletePast to Present. This is a podcast by Louis Moore and Derrick White. As trained historians and leading scholars on sports and race, we discuss the history of the black athlete in a contemporary conversation. Listen.
