12 Rounds in Lo's Gym : Boxing and Manhood in Appalachia /

Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the forefront of national conversations about politics and culture. From Todd Snyder, a first generation college student turned college professor, come...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Snyder, Todd, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Snyder, Mike, > 1959-
Snyder, Todd, > 1981-
Problem youth > West Virginia > Biography.
Coal mines and mining > West Virginia.
Coal miners > West Virginia > Biography.
College teachers > West Virginia > Biography.
Masculinity > West Virginia.
Boxing > Social aspects > West Virginia.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude. Mountain violence
  • part I. Corner men : the Eden story of Lo's Gym Boxing Club
  • 1. Fighting Noah Milton
  • 2. Tough men
  • 3. Lo's Gym
  • 4. Flex and the rumble on the hill
  • 5. Street preacher
  • part II. Counterpunchers : parables of Coal Country pugilism
  • 6. The unlikely reincarnation story of Rick Cogar
  • 7. Jeremiah and the three bears
  • 8. Ring girls
  • 9. Appalachian underdogs of the squared circle
  • part III. Split decisions : stories from the championship rounds
  • 10. Prizefighters
  • 11. Hillbilly Jefferson
  • 12. Premature stoppage
  • Dedication : fighting Naton Leslie.

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