{"id":3148,"date":"2022-09-25T19:01:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T03:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2022-09-25T19:01:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T03:01:07","slug":"review-i-fight-for-a-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3148","title":{"rendered":"Review: I Fight for a Living"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you have an interest in the intersection of sports and civil rights, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/loumoore12\">Louis Moore<\/a> is a great follow on twitter.  He has deeply researched the topic, continues to do so, and communicates what he finds very well.  <em>I Fight for a Living<\/em> is his research about black boxers in America in the late 1880s.  If you want to know about the roots of segregation, bombast, and personal branding in American sport, this is a good place to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moore has a pro-equality point of view, and he does not shy from racial interpretations of this history.  But the historical record doesn&#8217;t make that hard.  Sports talk wasn&#8217;t shy about throwing racial cards on the table, and neither were the fighters and promoters themselves.  If you think sports has been free of racial controversy and protest, this is a fine demonstration that we&#8217;ve been arguing about it since around the time the phone was invented (no correlation implied).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have an interest in the intersection of sports and civil rights, Louis Moore is a great follow on twitter. He has deeply researched the topic, continues to do so, and communicates what he finds very well. I Fight for a Living is his research about black boxers in America in the late 1880s. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3150,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}