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New Book Throws Jab at Art of Black Boxers

In “Heavyweight: Black Boxers and the Fight for Representation,” Jordana Moore Saggese, art history professor and director of the David C. Driskell Center, examines artistic depictions of Black boxers from the 19th through 21st centuries, revealing how their renderings reflected and reinforced stereotypes about Black men’s physicality, celebrity, power and place in the United States.
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