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…
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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…
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…
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 …
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…
Empire is not a supreme entity controlling high-level policies in metropolises: it is a reality translated into the daily lives of the subalterns at the periphery of the periphery of empire, as this microhistory of Qina province during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries arg…