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ISBN
9780712609777
Publication Year
2006
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Unforgivable Blackness: the Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Item Height
198mm
Author
Geoffrey Ward
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Genre
Biographies & True Stories, Sports
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
408g
Number of Pages
512 Pages

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First UK publication of the acclaimed biography of the first black heavyweight world champion - and one of the most controversial black figures of the 20th century. e was the first black heavyweight champion in history (1908 15) and the most celebrated and most reviled African American of his age.In Unforgivable Blackness, prize-winning biographer Geoffrey C. Ward brings to vivid life the real Jack Johnson, a figure far more complex than the newspaper headlines could ever convey. Johnson battled his way from obscurity to the top of the heavyweight ranks and in 1908 won the greatest prize in American sports one that had always been the preserve of white boxers.At a time when whites ran everything in America, he took orders from no one and resolved to live as if colour did not exist.Because of this, the federal government set out to destroy him and he was forced to endure a year of prison and seven years of exile. As Ward shows, Johnson was seen as a perpetual threat to white and African Americans alike profligate, arrogant, amoral, a dark menace and a danger to the natural order of things. Unforgivable Blackness is the first full-scale biography of Johnson in more than t

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Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780712609777
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Book Title
Unforgivable Blackness: the Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Author
Geoffrey Ward
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Biographies & True Stories, Sports
Number of Pages
512 Pages

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Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
408g

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Geoffrey Ward
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United Kingdom

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    Jack Johnson has always been a hero of mine. Up against racial prejudice on every level, yet still managed to become champion. Also an insight to life in those days. But most of all the appalling racism. America should hang it's head in shame.

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    DID NOT READ THE BOOK. IT WAS PURCHASED FOR A BIRTHDAY PRESENT

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