| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

The Pussycat of Prizefighting: Tiger Flowers and the Politics of Black Celebrity. By Andrew M. Kaye. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xii, 208 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-8203-25902.)

Many sports historians rely on biography to examine the broader historical impact sport has on society. In The Pussycat of Prizefighting, Andrew M. Kaye moves beyond biography to expose a famous athlete whose fame did not follow him out of his own era. By not dragging readers into a punch-by-punch narrative of the career of the Georgia-born Tiger Flowers, Kaye offers a well-conceived design of what the black athlete experience can tell us, particularly in terms of regional and national racial conventions. "Flowers's career ... was not merely a series of knockout punches interspersed with bouts of high living, the narrative we most often associate with professional boxing," Kaye writes; "instead, it provides an insight into the racial climate and mores of the early-twentieth-century South, its attitudes and dilemmas, its protean as well as its intransigent aspects" (pp. 4–5).

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