Body & soul : notebooks of an apprentice boxer
Loïc J. D. Wacquant, Oxford University Press (Publisher)
Body & Soul marries the analytic rigor of the sociologist with the stylistic grace of the novelist to offer a compelling portrait of a bodily craft and of life and labor in the black American ghetto, but also a fascinating tale of personal transformation and social transcendence.
XIV, 274 s. : il. ; 22 cm.
9780195168358, 9780195305623, 0195168356, 0195305620
1000047724
The Taste and Ache of ActionPreface to the U.S. EditionPrologueThe Street and the RingAn Island of Order and Virtue"The Boys Who Beat the Street"A Scientifically Savage PracticeThe Social Logic of SparringAn Implicit and Collective PedagogyManaging Bodily CapitalFight Night at Studio 104"You Scared I Might Mess Up 'Cause You Done Messed UpWeigh-in at the Illinois State BuildingAn Anxious AfternoonWelcome to Studio 104Pitiful PreliminariesStrong Beats Hannah by TKO in the FourthMake Way for the Exotic Dancers"You Stop Two More Guys and I'll Stop Drinkin'""Busy" Louie at the Golden GlovesList of IllustrationsA Note on Acknowledgments and TranscriptionIndex