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Medientyp:
E-Book
Titel:
Black Men on the Blacktop
:
Basketball and the Politics of Race
Enthält:
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 The Black Man’s Game
2 Sports and Basketball in Black American Culture
3 Everyday Resistance and Black Man’s Rules
4 Playing It Cool, Pushing Back
5 The Mandingo Syndrome
6 Taking Soul to the Hole
Bibliography
Index
About the Book
Beschreibung:
What is it about basketball that makes it "the black man’s game"? And what about pickup basketball in particular: can it tell us something about the state of blackness in the United States? Reflecting on these questions, Rafik Mohamed presents pickup games as a text of the political, social, and economic struggles of African American men. In the process, he tells a story about race in its peculiarly American context, and about how the politics of race--and resistance--are mediated through sports