Black Men on the Blacktop: Basketball and the Politics of Race
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| Title: | Black Men on the Blacktop: Basketball and the Politics of Race |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | A. Rafik Mohamed |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | African American young men--Economic conditions, African American young men--Social conditions, Streetball--Social aspects--United States, Basketball--Social aspects--United States |
| Categories: | SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Gambling / Sports, SPORTS & RECREATION / Essays, SPORTS & RECREATION / History, SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Sports |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9781626376663 9781626378148 |
