The Pussycat of Prizefighting: Tiger Flowers and the Politics of Black Celebrity

by Andrew M. Kaye

Book Overview

In 1926 Theodore ?Tiger? Flowers became the first African American boxer to win the world middleweight title. The next year he was dead, the victim of surgery gone wrong. His funeral in Atlanta drew... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082032910X
• ISBN13: 9780820329109
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.7"