Living through the hoop : high school basketball, race, and the American dream /

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Visit the author's YouTube channel!. When high school basketball player LeBron James was selected as the top pick in the National Basketball Association draft of 2003, the hopes of a half-million high school basketball players soared. If LeBron could go straight from high school to the NBA, why...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: May, Reuben A. Buford, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Basketball > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Basketball > United States > Sociological aspects.
Basketball players > Georgia.
Basket-ball > Aspect moral > États-Unis.
Basket-ball > États-Unis > Aspect sociologique.
Joueurs de basket-ball > Géorgie (État)
SPORTS & RECREATION > Basketball.
Basketball > Moral and ethical aspects.
Basketball players.
Georgia.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Visit the author's YouTube channel!. When high school basketball player LeBron James was selected as the top pick in the National Basketball Association draft of 2003, the hopes of a half-million high school basketball players soared. If LeBron could go straight from high school to the NBA, why couldn't they? Such is the allure of basketball for so many young African American men. Unfortunately, the reality is that their chances of ever playing basketball at the professional, or even college, level are infinitesimal. In Living Through the Hoop, Reuben A. Buford May tells the absorbing story o.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 243 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.
ISBN:9780814795613
0814795617
9780814789902
0814789900

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