Now the African reigns supreme’
The rise of African boxing on the Witwatersrand, 1924–1959
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12217296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tyler Fleming (Columbus State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-62 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of the History of Sport (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-3367 • E-ISSN: 1743-9035 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09523367.2011.525303 |
| PMID | 21280408 |
| OpenAlex | W1984701831 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 1 |
This essay explores the growth of boxing among the African populations on the Witwatersrand region of South Africa between 1924 and 1959. It details how the sport's jump in popularity with Africans paralleled migration to Johannesburg. Africans increasingly saw boxing as an activity and skill conducive with survival in this new environment, and thus the sport grew in popularity, stature, and skill-level amongst this emergent urban population. The essay further explores the various ways that the sport was disseminated and popularized during the era, thus detailing how the sport reached both the African masses and petit-bourgeois educated elite. As their presence in Johannesburg became more and more permanent, boxing came to encompass various meanings and ideals, such as notions of discipline, independence and civility, to these urban populations
Bourgeoisie · Civility · Elite · Genealogy · Independence (probability theory · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Population · Sociology · Demography · Doping in Sports · Gender Studies · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.47 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |