Research Catalog

Title

Black planet : facing race during an NBA season / David Shields.

Author

Shields, David, 1956-

Publication

New York : Crown Publishers, ©1999.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Description

223 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• "The National Basketball Association is a place where, without ever acknowledging it, white fans and black players enact and quietly explode virtually every racial issue and tension in the culture at large. In Black Planet, David Shields explores how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans - including especially himself - think about and talk about black heroes, black scapegoats, black bodies."--Jacket.
• "During the 1994-95 NBA season, Shields went to the Seattle SuperSonics' home games; watched their away games on TV; listened to interviews and call-in shows; talked, or tried to talk, to players, coaches, and agents; attended charity events; corresponded with members of the Sonics newsgroup on the Web. He kept a journal and over the next few years transformed that journal into this book, which is focused sharply on white spectators' relationship to black athletes, in particular Shields' own identification with Gary Payton, the team's language-besotted point-guard."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Diaries
• Race relations
• Seattle SuperSonics (Basketball team)
• Shields, David, 1956- > Diaries
• Basketball fans > United States > Social conditions
• African American basketball players > Social conditions
• Discrimination in sports > United States
• Basketball > United States > Sociological aspects
• United States > Race relations

Genre/Form

Diaries.

Contents

1. America Upside Down -- 2. Everyone Else Is They -- 3. Proof of My Own Racism -- 4. The Beautiful and the Useful -- 5. Converting Our Self-Loathing to Hatred -- 6. History Is Just a Rumor Somewhere Out There -- 7. An Agony of Enthralldom -- 8. Can You Feel Now What Power Feels Like? -- 9. History Is Not Just a Rumor Somewhere Out There -- 10. The Space Between Us.

Call Number

Sc D 99-3036

ISBN

• 060960452X
• 9780609604526

LCCN

99013084

OCLC

40939904

Author

Shields, David, 1956-

Title

Black planet : facing race during an NBA season / David Shields.

Imprint

New York : Crown Publishers, ©1999.

Edition

1st ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Other Form:

Online version: Shields, David, 1956- Black planet. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, ©1999 (OCoLC)607374323

Online version: Shields, David, 1956- Black planet. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, ©1999 (OCoLC)607804435

Research Call Number

Sc D 99-3036

JFD 99-16998