Tag: José M. Alamillo
Useful contribution to the study of race, inequality, and identity in American professional boxing
Professional boxers work inside a capitalistic and neoliberal sports culture that they both challenge and uphold. Rings of Dissent: Boxing and Performances of Rebellion, edited by Rudy Mondragón, Gaye Theresa Johnson & David J. Leonard (University of Illinois Press), delves into professional boxing’s capacity for brilliance, contradiction, resistance, and complicity. Our reviewers Daniele Canini and Anne Tjønndal found several compelling individual contributions, but given the academic provenance would have expected a stronger emphasis on analytical rather than descriptive writing.
The sport of tennis – constantly in the frontline of sport history
Five hundred pages, forty-five chapters, forty-nine authors – the Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics is a veritable treasure trove for academic tennis aficionados. Edited by renowned tennis historian Robert J. Lake, the volume elicited numerous unsolicited enthusiastic exclamations of appreciation and joy from our reviewer, renowned historian of Swedish tennis Johnny Wijk. Actually, his only complaint was the glaring paucity of Swedish tennis.
