Agency, Order and Sport in the Age of Trump
Jim Thorpe, Jack Johnson, and the Sporting Middle Ground
It is all connected. Trump’s racist law-and-order politics, his criticism of black athletes, his newfound pleasure in the pardon, and his desire to be loved. His recent pardon of early 20th-century boxer Jack Johnson, who had been convicted of violating the Mann Act, reveals a fraught and complicated history of race ...
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