Battling Siki

A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s

Peter Benson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2006
University of Arkansas Press (Verlag)
978-1-55728-816-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Battling Siki was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world, and was written about in detail by such figures as Ring Lardner and his son John, Damon Runyon, and Westbrook Pegler. On the evening of December 15, 1925, at the age of 28, he was shot and killed in Hell's Kitchen in what some claimed was a gangland execution.

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Battling Siki (1887-1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world, and was written about in detail by such figures as Ring Lardner and his son John, Damon Runyon, and Westbrook Pegler...On the evening of December 15, 1925, at the age of twenty-eight, he was shot and killed in Hell's Kitchen in what some claimed was a gangland execution.

Autor

Peter Benson is associate professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University and the author of Black Orpheus, Transition, and Modern Cultural Awakening in Africa. He has been a Visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Dakar, University of Nairobi, and Kenyatta University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.5.2006
• Zusatzinfo: illustrations
• Verlagsort: Fayetteville
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 753 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
• ISBN-10: 1-55728-816-X / 155728816X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-816-5 / 9781557288165
• Zustand: Neuware