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Black planet : facing race during an NBA season
- Title
- Black planet : facing race during an NBA season / David Shields.
- Author
- Shields, David.
- Publication
- New York : Crown, [1999], ©1999.
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- 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."--BOOK 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- 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.
- ISBN
- 060960452X (hc)
- LCCN
- 99013084
- OCLC
- ocm40939904
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries