TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mohamed,A.Rafik
TI  - Black Men on the Blacktop: Basketball and the Politics of Race 
SN  - 9781626378148
AV  - GV887.3 .M65 2017eb
U1  - 796.3230973 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - African American young men
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - African American young men-Economic conditions
KW  - African American young men-Social conditions
KW  - Basketball
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Basketball-Social aspects-United States
KW  - Streetball
KW  - Streetball-Social aspects-United States
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626378148
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781626378148
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781626378148/original
ER  -