Rudy Mondragon is an assistant professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the political economy of boxing and how professional boxers perform dignity and resistance. Gaye Theresa Johnson is an associate professor of African American Studies and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles. David J. Leonard is a professor of ethnic studies and chair of the Department of Multicultural and Gender Studies at Chico State University. His books include Playing While White: Privilege and Power on and off the Field.
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"Time and again, this sport has given us the richest possible window into this country, and yet it has seemed in recent years that the window has closed. But we still need boxing to not only understand our past but to also comprehend the present. [Rings of Dissent] has the immediacy of the great boxing writing of the past by figures such James Baldwin, Gay Talese, and Joyce Carol Oates, while keeping its feet planted in the present." --From the Foreword by Dave Zirin, author of The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World