Download or read book Heavyweight written by Jordana Moore Saggese and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Heavyweight, Jordana Moore Saggese examines images of Black heavyweight boxers to map the visual terrain of racist ideology in the United States, paying particular attention to the intersecting discourses of Blackness, masculinity, and sport. Looking closely at the “shadow archive” of portrayals across fine art, vernacular imagery, and public media at the turn of the twentieth century, shedemonstrates how the images of boxers reveal the racist stereotypes implicit in them, many of which continue to structure ideas of Black men today. With a focus on both anonymous fighters and notorious champions, including Jack Johnson, Saggese contends that popular images of these men provided white spectators a way to render themselves experts on Blackness and Black masculinity. These images became the blueprint for white conceptions of the Black male body—existing between fear and fantasy, simultaneously an object of desire and an instrument of violence. Reframing boxing as yet another way whiteness establishes the violent mythology of its supremacy, Saggese highlights the role of imagery in normalizing a culture of anti-Blackness.
Download or read book Both Members of the Club written by Adam Berlin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the streets of Manhattan to the gyms of Paris, from struggling with hard pasts to harnessing the primal pull, Both Members of the Club is a story of friendship and ambition and violence set against the world of boxing, a place where bodies get tested and truths are exposed.
Download or read book George Bellows and Urban America written by Marianne Doezema and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bellows's spirited and virile paintings of New York in the early decades of the twentieth century celebrated the city's bigness and bolness. Although these works clearly challenged the conservative practices of the National Academy and linked Bellows with the anti-academic art of Robert Henri and the Eight, they were highly popular, even with arch-conservatives. In this book Marianne Doezema explores why it was that Bellows's paintings--despite being considered coarse in technique and subject matter--were acclaimed by critics and patrons, by conservatives, progressives, and radicals alike. Doezema focuses on three of Bellows's principal urban themes: the excavation for Pennsylvania Station, prizefights, and tenement life on the Lower East Side. Drawing on journals and periodicals of the period, she discusses how the prominent, often newsworthy motifs painted by Bellows evoked particular associations and meanings for his contemporaries. Arguing that the implicit message of these paintings was distinctly unrevolutionary, she shows that the excavation paintings celebrated industrialization and urbanization, the boxing pictures presented the sport as brutal and its fans as bloodthirsty, and the depictions of the Lower East Side conformed to a moralistic, middle-class view of poverty. In many of Bellows's subject pictures of this era, says Doezema, the artist approached issues of changing moral and social values in a way that not only seemed congenial to many members of his audience but also verified their attitudes and preconceptions about urban life in America.
Download or read book Stranger America written by Josh Toth and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America’s democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early twentieth-century anxieties about individualism, race, and the foreign or intrusive "other" persist today. In Stranger America, Josh Toth tracks and delineates these anxieties in America’s aesthetic production, finally locating a potential narrative strategy for circumnavigating them. Toth’s central focus is, simply, strangeness—or those characters who adamantly resist being fixed in any given category of identity. As with the theorists employed (Nancy, i ek, Derrida, Freud, Hegel), the subjects and literature considered are as encompassing as possible: from the work of Herman Melville, William Faulkner, James Weldon Johnson, and Nella Larsen to that of Philip K. Dick, Woody Allen, Larry David, and Bob Dylan; from the rise of nativism in the early twentieth century to object-oriented ontology and the twenty-first-century zombie craze; from ragtime and the introduction of sound in American cinema to the exhaustion of postmodern metafiction. Toth argues that American literature, music, film, and television can show us the path toward a new ethic, one in which we organize identity around the stranger rather than resorting to tactics of pure exclusion or inclusion. Ultimately, he provides a new narrative approach to otherness that seeks to realize a truly democratic form of community.
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Download or read book Metropolitan Lives written by Rebecca Zurier and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 greatest works by Bellows, Sloan, and the other painters of the Ashcan School.
Download or read book Games That Time Forgot written by Adam Shefts and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parlor games were a staple of indoor entertainment during the 19th and early 20th century. Millions partook in these games which slowly fell out of favor for more modern forms of entertainment by the early 1910s.Eventually these games fell into obscurity, becoming lost over time.Games That Time Forgot shines a light on over 100 forgotten parlor games, which include detailed easy-to-follow instructions for those interested inreviving these games in their own households.This book will aid in turning any home into a location of living history, where you can enjoy these games as many did so long ago.
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Download or read book The Infernal Device and Others written by Michael Kurland and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2001-08-11 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their original appearance more than two decades ago, Michael Kurland's two novels featuring Professor James Moriarty--The Infernal Device and Death by Gaslight--have been among the most acclaimed of the works based on the characters first introduced by Authur Conan Doyle. In Doyle's original stories, Professor Moriarty is the bete noire of Sherlock Holmes, who deems the professor his mental equivalent and ethical opposite, declares him "the Napoleon of Crime, " and wrestles him seemingly to their mutual deaths at Reichenbach Falls. But indeed there are two sides to every story, and while Moriarty may not always tread strictly on the side of the law, he is also, in these novels, not quite about the person that Holmes and Watson made him out to be. In Kurland's fictions about Moriarty, the truth is finally revealed: The Infernal Device--A dangerous adversary seeking to topple the British monarchy places Moriarty in mortal jeopardy, forcing him to collaborate with his nemesis Sherlock Holmes. Death by Gaslight--A serial killer is stalking the cream of England's aristocracy, baffling both the police and Sherlock Holmes and leaving the powers in charge to play one last desperate card: Professor Moriarty. The Paradol Paradox--The first new Moriarty story in almost twenty years, it has never before appeared in print. Brilliantly and vividly evoking late Victorian England in all its facets, this first-ever omnibus of the adventures of Proefssor James Moriarty will delight longtime fans as well as readers new to the milieu.
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Download or read book Rating Valuation written by Patrick H. Bond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rating Valuation: Principles and Practice has long been the standard go-to guide for both students studying rating valuation and practitioners needing a comprehensive reference book covering rating law, valuation and, importantly, practice. This fourth edition brings the reader up to date with the changes for the 2017 Rating Revaluation, including the new Check, Challenge and Appeal procedures, and developments in case law, as well as highlights the differences between the law in England and Wales. A comprehensive chapter on Northern Ireland rating has been added to this edition. Starting with the basics, the book goes on to provide more in-depth detail for advanced readers, using clear, accessible and engaging analysis and example valuations throughout to break down what many see as a complex subject. Whether you are studying to pass your APC, or just want an overview of the changes taken in by the latest revaluation, Rating Valuation: Principles and Practice will give you all you need to understand rating valuation.
Download or read book Automotive Web Sites written by Todd A. Jensen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This time-saving Internet guide to automotive subjects--from pricing a new minivan to the latest racing news to restoring a 1930s classic--presents over 400 World Wide Web addresses, with 240 detailed descriptions of the most useful, or entertaining. The guide includes a brief history of cars and trucks on the Internet, as well as tips for novice Web users. Sites are arranged by topics, such as purchasing a vehicle, chat rooms, aftermarket suppliers, auto clubs, collectibles, racing, publications, and more. Here's a sampling of what you can find in just a few moments of browsing the pages: * the definitive information and support source for Ford Galaxies (or various other models) * a state-by-state directory of police speed traps as reported by drivers * a blow-by-blow photo diary of a '54 Studebaker restoration in progress * places to buy or sell classics
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Download or read book The Longest Fight written by William Gildea and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic, little-known story of Joe Gans, an early African-American sports hero and the welterweight champion of the world. Though he is largely unknown today, this book will change that with its emphasis on one key fight in 1906.
