Name: Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey (Black Lives) (en Inglés)
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Author: Mooney, Katherine C.
ISBN: 9780300254426

portada Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey (Black Lives) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Katherine C. Mooney

Editorial

Yale University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

192

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780300254426

Categorías

Afroamericanos
Los pueblos de origen africano
Biografías de deportistas
Estudios étnicos
Carreras de caballos

Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey (Black Lives) (en Inglés)

Katherine C. Mooney (Autor) · Yale University Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey (Black Lives) (en Inglés)"

The rise and fall of one of America's first Black sports celebrities Isaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at the end of the nineteenth century. They were internationally famous, the first African American superstar athletes--and with wins in three Kentucky Derbies and countless other prestigious races, Murphy was the greatest of them all. At the same time, he lived through the seismic events of Emancipation and Reconstruction and formative conflicts over freedom and equality in the United States. And inevitably he was drawn into those conflicts, with devastating consequences. Katherine C. Mooney uncovers the history of Murphy's troubled life, his death in 1896 at age thirty-five, and his afterlife. In recounting Murphy's personal story, she also tells two of the great stories of change in nineteenth-century America: the debates over what a multiracial democracy might look like and the battles over who was to hold power in an economy that increasingly resembled the corporate, wealth-polarized world we know today.