The pussycat of prizefighting
Subtitle: Tiger Flowers and the politics of Black celebrity
By: Andrew M. Kaye
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Flowers, Tiger, -- 1895-1927; Boxers (Sports) -- United States -- Biography; African American boxers -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-200) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Tiger or pussycat?; title: Black prizefighters as slaves and free men; title: Jack Johnson, white hopes, and battle royals; title: Becoming the Georgia Deacon; title: The whitest Black man in the ring; title: Epilogue : he's gone, gone home