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Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (Women in Culture and Society) (Updated Edition) by Gail Bederman, Catharine R. Stimpson Paperback, 322 Pages, Published 1996 ISBN-10: 0-226-04139-5 / 0226041395 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04139-1 / 9780226041391 When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it "for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a negro". Jeffries, though, was t |