Black Men on the Blacktop : Basketball and the Politics of Race /

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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mohamed, A. Rafik (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]
Temas:
African American young men > Economic conditions.
African American young men > Social conditions.
African American young men-Economic conditions.
African American young men-Social conditions.
Basketball > Social aspects > United States.
Basketball-Social aspects-United States.
Streetball > Social aspects > United States.
Streetball-Social aspects-United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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