Black Men on the Blacktop : : Basketball and the Politics of Race / / A. Rafik Mohamed.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Mohamed, A. Rafik,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (189 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781626378148; 9783110783568
• DOI: 10.1515/9781626378148
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: A. Rafik Mohamed.

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.