Year: 2004
Author: Loic Wacquant
Genre: Sociology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0-19-516835-6
English language
Format: PDF
Interactive table of contents: No
Number of Pages: 289

Loic Wocan, a famous French-American scientist who studied the daily life of black boxers in one of the most troubled areas of Chicago.

The Taste and Ache of Action
Preface to the U.S. Edition
Prologue
The Street and the Ring
An Island of Order and Virtue
"The Boys Who Beat the Street"
A Scientifically Savage Practice
The Social Logic of Sparring
An Implicit and Collective Pedagogy
Managing Bodily Capital
Fight Night at Studio 104
"You Scared I Might Mess Up 'Cause You Done Messed Up"
Weigh-in at the Illinois State Building
An Anxious Afternoon
Welcome to Studio 104
Pitiful Preliminaries
Strong Beats Hannah by TKO in the Fourth
Make Way for the Exotic Dancers
"You Stop Two More Guys and I'll Stop Drinkin'"
"Busy" Louie at the Golden Gloves
List of Illustrations
A Note on Acknowledgments and Transcription
Index

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