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The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture

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If you enjoy well written, intellectual social commentary about things you may have vaguely felt before yet have never remotely approached forming into cogent thought, then this collection of essays shall bestow upon you a cerebral elucidation of things you may or may not have thought or known before.

The Culture of Bruising is a must read for someone who enjoys nonfiction, cultural insights, sports, erudite essays or any combination thereof. The depth, lucidity and splendor with which he masterfully crafts his essays in tremendous.

I can't imagine why Mr. Early, an intelligent man no doubt, has so little to say about the chief enemy to Black athletes in this country: white males. While cowardly white males bet on Black prize fighters without having the bravery or the talent to enter the ring against Black opponents (and other people of color), who gets most of the money? The 'backers', the arena owners, etc. This book simply does not spend enough time on the subject. As a white woman, I side with those Black athletes who are subverting the paradigms of sports, especially those recieved notions that competition lends 'dignity' to the contestants. At the heart of athletics today is racism, pure and simple, and white male heterosexist patriarchy is to blame.