The campaign of the Khilafat Movement and the Ali brothers' close collaboration with Gandhi are well acknowledged in the pages of history. It is also well known that after the collapse of the Khilafat-Non-cooperation Movement, the relationship between them became strenuous, and …
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"The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture.…
This monograph argues that Muhammad Ali's emergence as a race leader began during 1966 and 1967, when he refused to compromise his religious beliefs and fostered unprecedented professional autonomy for a black heavyweight champion. Ali's stalwart stance against the Vietnam War a…
""Muhammad Ali was a champion, a poet, a prophet. Sports Illustrated called him "the greatest athlete of the twentieth century." And yet he was even more than all of that, "a whole greater than the sum of its parts ... bigger, brighter, more original and influential than just ab…
""Muhammad Ali was a champion, a poet, a prophet. Sports Illustrated called him "the greatest athlete of the twentieth century." And yet he was even more than all of that, "a whole greater than the sum of its parts ... bigger, brighter, more original and influential than just ab…
While the intersection of sport and the Civil Rights era has been well documented from a number of angles and approaches, perhaps no athlete has been so thoroughly connected to this period in history as Muhammad Ali. His stances on Vietnam, race relations and religion during thi…
This work examines instances where dominant and subordinate cultural formations have struggled over the understandings and rewards connected to the circulation of various innovative but challenging styles. The dissertation extends cultural studies investigations of subcultural s…
What's My Name? Organic and Vernacular Intellectuals is a study of the different processes through which four figures, C. L. R. James, Stuart Hall, Muhammad Ali and Bob Marley, construct themselves as postcolonial intellectuals. I am concerned here with the ways in in which thes…
The psychodynamics of white racism is not a well-theorized phenomenon. Traditional discourse on racism has primarily focused on “black doings and sufferings, not white anxieties and fear” (West, 1993). In other words, approaches to the study of white racism tend to emphasize the…
Former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali was one of the most controversial public figures in the United States in the 1960s. His family life and childhood in segregated Louisville, Kentucky shaped him to become a member of the Nation of Islam (NOI) by his late teens. His …