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The Fight |
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SOLD / This work makes loose reference to the historical bout between James Jeffries (The Great White Hope) and Jack Johnson in 1910, where Johnson knocked out Jeffries. Johnson became the first Black Boxing Heavyweight Champion at the height of the Jim Crow era. This was a stunning turn of events for most White Americans at the time, unaccustomed as they were to witnessing Black superiority over White performers in any field of endeavor. More generally this work is meant to remind us that the nature of race relations in America historically has been adversarial. The boxing ring is an old bare knuckle championship belt.
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