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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: "A carnival of muscle": Popular amusements and public culture in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, 1880--1920 Abstract: This dissertation examines prizefighting and other popular amusements in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century San Francisco both to construct a social history of participants, spectators, and consumers and to illuminate the relationship between popular amusements and politics. Turn-of-the-century San Franciscans promoted and challenged class, racial, and gender identities in the spaces of popular amusement, as in controversies over women's attendance at prizefights. At the same time, these identities were displayed through the production of particular forms of public culture, as in the racialized scripts promoted in the screenings of the film The Birth of a Nation and the suppression of the film version of the Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries boxing match, in which a black man bested his white opponent. |
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