Come Out Swinging : : The Changing World of Boxing in Gleason's Gym / / Lucia Trimbur.
Gleason's Gym is the last remaining institution of New York's Golden Age of boxing. Jake LaMotta, Muhammad Ali, Hector Camacho, Mike Tyson--the alumni of Gleason's are a roster of boxing greats. Founded in the Bronx in 1937, Gleason's moved in the mid-1980s to what has since beco...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 10 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prominent Participants
- Preface
- Chapter One. Survival in a City Transformed: The Urban Boxing Gym in Postindustrial New York
- Chapter Two. Work without Wages
- Chapter Three. Tough Love and Intimacy in a Community of Men
- Chapter Four. Passing Time: The Expressive Culture of Everyday Gym Life
- Chapter Five. The Changing Politics of Gender
- Chapter Six. Buying and Selling Blackness: White-Collar Boxing and the Cultural Capital of Racial Difference
- Epilogue
- Methodological Appendix: Ethnographic Research in the Urban Gym
- Notes
- References
- Index