num_pages: 226
description: The National Basketball Association is a place where white fans and black players enact virtually every racial issue and tension in U.S. culture. Following the Seattle SuperSonics for an entire season, David Shields explores how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans—including especially himself—think about and talk about black heroes, black scapegoats, and black bodies. Critically acclaimed and highly controversial, Black Planet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN USA Award, and was named one of the Top Ten Nonfiction Books of 1999 by Esquire , Newsday , Los Angeles Weekly , and Amazon.com. 
language: English
title: Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season
titlecomplete: Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season
genres: Sports, Basketball, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 221
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Bison Books