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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (189 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781626378148
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.3230973 23
LOC classification:
  • GV887.3 .M65 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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