The big smoke /
The legendary Jack Johnson (1878-1946) was a true American creation. The child of emancipated slaves, he overcame the violent segregationism of Jim Crow, challenging white boxers and white America to become the first African-American heavyweight world champion. The Big Smoke, Adrian Matejka's t...
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New York :
Penguin Books,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Hurt Business. Battle Royal ; Cannibalism ; Hurt Business ; The Manly Art of Self-Defense ; The Shadow Knows ; Blues His Sweetie Gives to Me ; Shadow Boxing ; Prize Fighter ; Fisticuffs
- Weigh-In. Sporting Life ; Courtship ; "A Great Maltese Cat Toying with a White Mouse" ; Letter to Belle (May 27, 1909) ; Letter to Belle (May 29, 1909) ; Chicken & Other Stereotypes ; Letter to Belle (September 15, 1909) ; Mouth Fighting ; Shadow Boxing ; Cooking Lessons ; Introductions ; "Texas Authorities Will Prosecute the Champion if He Takes White Wife"
- Knee Off Canvas. Roadwork at Seal Rock ; Race Relations ; Shadow Boxing ; Vedi! Le fosche notturne ; Letter to Belle (March 10, 1910) ; Equality ; Photography ; "A Struggle Between a Demon and a Gritty Little Dwarf" ; The Shadow Knows ; Color Line ; Friendship ; "Machine Containing Johnson's Friends Wrecked" ; Alias ; Hostilities ; Fisticuff Difficulty
- Bet Your Last Copper. Gold Smile ; Fidelity ; Letter to Belle (December 3, 1910) ; Out of the Bath ; "Carefree as a Plantation Darky in Watermelon Time" ; Shadow Boxing ; The Battle of the Century ; Race Relations ; Marriage Proposal ; Aristocracy ; Compromises ; The Shadow Knows ; Rememory ; Ticket on the Titanic ; Il Trovatore
- No Decision. Hubert's Museum & Flea Circus (1937).