They Punched Black
Martial Arts, Black Arts, and Sports in the Urban North and West, 1968-1979
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3621793 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maryam Aziz (0000-0002-5031-4951, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 304-327 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1548-1867 • E-ISSN: 2153-5086 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/713680 |
| OpenAlex | W3161679135 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Martial artistry was an important aspect of Black Power organizing in the 1960s and 1970s. Organizations trained children and adults in martial arts in Black independent schools as well as in evening and weekend classes. By examining martial arts within the Committee for Unified Newark and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, this article focuses on how martial arts, as both athletics and arts, complicate our understanding of the strategies used to challenge political, artistic, and educational institutions. More than just recreation, I argue that martial arts training realized the Black mental, spiritual, and physical fitness goals of activists. Analyzing combat sports and unarmed self-defense expands our understanding of the relationship of Black Power to bodily movement, identity, and gender. Therefore, this article adds to Black Power and sports studies scholarship by examining organizers who believed that, in order to achieve Black freedom, one needed martial artistry
Aesthetics · Art · Black Power · Martial arts · Political science · Politics · Recreation · Scholarship · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Gender Studies · Law · Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Highly cited | No |
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