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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.
Cashmore's eviscerating analysis of Tyson's life and the culture in which he grew up, rose to prominence and descended into disgrace provokes the reader into re-thinking the role of one of the most controversial and infamous figures of recent history. 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.
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A-list celebrities
ABC
Abraham, Seth
Abramovsky, Abraham
Abrams, Robert
Adarand Constructors, Inc. vs. Peña
Advertiser
advertising, MT in; see also endorsements
Advertising Age
affirmative action programs
African Americans see black people
African Americans Against Violence
Ain, Sanford K.
Albert, Marv
Alexander the Great
Ali, Khaliah
Ali, Muhammad; vs. Berbick; vs. Foreman; vs. Liston; vs. Spinks
Alomar, Roberto
Anderson, Dave
Anderson, Orlando
Andries, Dennis
Angelou, Maya
Angels with Dirty Faces (movie)
Anheuser-Busch
Aniston, Jennifer
anomie
AOL Time Warner
Archer-Straw, Petrine
Arnette, Jeanetta
Arum, Bob
Ashe, Arthur
Atlas, Teddy
August, LaDonna
automaticity in sport
Bad Boy Entertainment
Baime, Albert
Bak, Richard
Baltimore Afro-American
Baltimore Ravens
Baransky, Matt
Barry, Marion
BBC
Bega, Leslie
Benedict, Jeff
Benitez, Wilfred
Bennet, Ernie
Bennett, Lerone, Jr
Bennett, Willie
Berbick, Trevor
Berger, Phil
Bernard-Donals, M.
Best Damn Sports Show Period (tv program)
bestiality: black people; boxers; see also Tyson, Mike
Biggs, Tyrell
black culture
Black Panther Party
black people; ambition (see also Givens, Robin; King, Don); and black boxers; legacy of black athleticism for; MT’s increasing alignment with; O. J. Simpson case; opinion of MT’s rape trial; Otherness; reaction to MT’s punishment for ear-biting incident; response to MT’s release from prison; white people’s view of; see also bestiality; racial mythology; racial stereotypes
black success, attitudes to
black underclass
black women; see also racial stereotypes
Blade Runner (movie)
Bloods gang
Bonds, Barry
Boomerang (movie)
Borges, Ron
Bose, Mihir
Boston Globe
Boswell, Tom
Botha, Francois
Bowe, Riddick
boxing; connection with organized crime; Don King’s career as promoter; heavyweight champion industry; methods; reaction to ear-biting incident; sadism; see also International Boxing Federation; World Boxing Association; World Boxing Council
boxing career of MT; introduction to boxing; early training in Catskill Mountains; becomes professional boxer; (1986–1987); (1988–1990); (1990–1992); on release from prison (1995); (1996–1998), including ear-biting incident and suspension from boxing; (1999–2001); (2002–2003), including defeat by Lennox Lewis; (2004)
Boxing Illustrated
Boyd, Angela
Boyz N the Hood (movie)
Brady, James
Brady, Jim
Brawley, Tawana, case; MT’s involvement
Bright, Jay
Brooke, Edward W.
Brown, James
Brown, Oliver
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
Brownsville, Brooklyn, MT’s early life
Bruno, Frank
Burns, Tommy...
Table of contents
- Cover
- CELEBRITIES
- Title page
- Copyright page
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Endorsements
- one INTRODUCTION: I WILL KILL YOU. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THIS?
- two IF YOU’D BE KIND ENOUGH, I’D LOVE TO DO IT AGAIN
- three ARE YOU AN ANIMAL? IT DEPENDS
- four LIKE WATCHING A SERENGETI LION RIP INTO A WARTHOG
- five HIS VITAL ORGANS IN EXCHANGE FOR FORGIVENESS
- six GOD’S PLANNING TO SCREW HIM
- seven TO RAPE THE VIRGINAL BLACK PRINCESS
- eight IN HANDCUFFS IN THE BACK OF A POLICE CRUISER
- nine THEY BELIEVE WHITE MEN HAVE HAD TO PAY FOR BLACK SUCCESS
- ten TIME TO LEAVE THE WHITE MAN’S WORLD
- eleven FACTS ARE LOST IN THE PRECONCEPTIONS OF RACIAL GRIEVANCE
- twelve GIVE HIM ENOUGH TIME AND THE NIGGER WILL COME OUT IN HIM AGAIN
- thirteen THE DEBT OF THE GHETTO BOUND
- fourteen YOU’D STILL LOOK AT ME AS A SCUMBAG
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index