Black men on the blacktop
Subtitle: basketball and the politics of race
By: A. Rafik Mohamed
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781626376663; 9781626376786
Subjects: African American young men; Social conditions; Basketball; Streetball; Economic conditions
Description: "Presents basketball, and especially pickup basketball, as a text of the political, social, and economic struggles of black men in the United States" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Black Man's Game; title: Sports and Basketball in Black American Culture; title: Everyday Resistance and Black Man's Rules; title: Playing it Cool, Pushing Back; title: The Mandingo Syndrome; title: Taking Soul to the Hole.