HIST 3838 Chapter Notes - Chapter --: Black Body, Masculinity, Ken Burns
13 Jan 2016
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Race, class, and the manly modern boxing"s jack johnson. Excerpt from jack johnson is a dandy: an autobiography. Film: ken burns, unforgivable blackness: the rise and fall of jack johnson sizes etc institutionalized. Jack johnson as a sports celebrity/ hero. Race to describe groups of people with inherited similarities. Race is a social construction / changes over time and circumstance. Northern states win civil war and slavery is made illegal in us. 1896 various state legislation passed to insure race based discrimination was. Race matters to black groups in america didnt like implication of pretend science about brain. Believed white boxers were stronger, more courageous, more agile, more determined, more graceful compared to black boxers. They had no stadiums though so they rent out stadiums of white teams. League that was destined to fail but very popular in the 30s and 40s. Mixed high schools by the early 20th century in mid west football teams and track teams.
