Black Men on the Blacktop : : Basketball and the Politics of Race / / 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, socia...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (189 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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