Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s
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Author(s)Peter Benson
PublisherThe University of Arkansas Press
ISBN / ASIN1557288887
ISBN-139781557288882
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,734,154
CategoryPaperback
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Battling Siki (1887–1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. Peter Benson’s lively biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of sports, race, colonialism, and the cult of personality in the early twentieth century.
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