Tyson

Informationen zum Autor Ellis Cashmore is Professor of Culture, Media and Sport at Staffordshire University Klappentext Beast. Monster. Savage. Psycho. The glowering menace of Mike Tyson has spooked us for almost two decades. And still we remain fascinated. Why? Ellis Cashmore's answer is disturbing: white society has created Tyson as vengeance for the loss of privilege produced by civil rights. Told as an odyssey-style homeward journey to Tyson's multi-pathological origins in the racially-explosive ghettos of the 1960s, Tyson's story is part biography, part tragedy and part exposition. His associations with people like Al Sharpton, Don King and Tupac Shakur shaped his life; and events, such as the O J Simpson trial and the Rodney King riots, formed a turbulent background for the Tyson psychodrama. Over the course of an epic boxing career, Tyson was transformed from the most celebrated athlete on earth to a primal, malevolent hate-figure. Yet, even after being condemned as a brute, Tyson retained a power - a power to captivate. Cashmore reveals that the sources of that power lie as much in us as in Tyson himself. Zusammenfassung Beast. Monster. Savage. Psycho. The glowering menace of Mike Tyson has spooked us for almost two decades. And still we remain fascinated. Why? Ellis Cashmorea s answer is disturbing: white society has created Tyson as vengeance for the loss of privilege produced by civil rights.

Autorentext
Ellis Cashmore is Professor of Culture, Media and Sport at Staffordshire University

Klappentext
Beast. Monster. Savage. Psycho. The glowering menace of Mike Tyson has spooked us for almost two decades. And still we remain fascinated. Why? Ellis Cashmore's answer is disturbing: white society has created Tyson as vengeance for the loss of privilege produced by civil rights.
Told as an odyssey-style homeward journey to Tyson's multi-pathological origins in the racially-explosive ghettos of the 1960s, Tyson's story is part biography, part tragedy and part exposition. His associations with people like Al Sharpton, Don King and Tupac Shakur shaped his life; and events, such as the O J Simpson trial and the Rodney King riots, formed a turbulent background for the Tyson psychodrama. Over the course of an epic boxing career, Tyson was transformed from the most celebrated athlete on earth to a primal, malevolent hate-figure. Yet, even after being condemned as a brute, Tyson retained a power - a power to captivate. Cashmore reveals that the sources of that power lie as much in us as in Tyson himself.

Inhalt
* Acknowledgments * chapter one - Introduction: I will kill you. Do you understand this? * chapter two - If you'd be kind enough, I'd love to do it again * chapter three - Are you an animal? It depends * chapter four - Like watching a Serengeti lion rip into a warthog * chapter five - His vital organs in exchange for forgiveness * chapter six - God's planning to screw him * chapter seven - To rape the virginal black princess * chapter eight - In handcuffs in the back of a police cruiser * chapter nine - They believe white men have had to pay for black success * chapter ten - Time to leave the white man's world * chapter eleven - Facts are lost in the preconceptions of racial grievance * chapter twelve - Give him enough time and the nigger will come out in him * chapter thirteen - The debt of the ghetto bound * chapter fourteen - You'd still look at me as a scumbag * Bibliography * Index

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