Basketball Jones
Subtitle: America above the rim
By: edited by Todd Boyd and Kenneth L. Shropshire
Contributors: Boyd, Todd; Shropshire, Kenneth L
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Basketball -- Social aspects -- United States; Basketball -- Economic aspects -- United States; Minorities in sports -- United States; Discrimination in sports -- United States
Other titles: America above the rim
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Privileges and immunities for basketball stars and other sports heroes? / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.; title: Why baseball was the Black national pastime / Gerald Early; title: Gladiators, gazelles, and groupies : basketball love and loathing / Julianne Malveaux; title: Mo' money, mo' problems : keepin' it real in the post-Jordan era / Todd Boyd; title: The white shadow / Larry Platt; title: Deconstructing the NBA / Kenneth L. Shropshire; title: Blue-collar law and basketball / Mark Conrad; title: African American ownership : Bob Douglas and the Rens / Susan J. Rayl; title: Incivility and basketball / Earl Smith; title: Attacking the rim : the cultural politics of dunking / Davis W. Houck; title: Retelevising a revolution : commercial basketball and a chat with Gil Scott-Heron /    James Peterson; title: Sheroes over the rim : a brave new women's basketball world / Tina Sloan Green and Alpha Alexander; title: Who's got next? Gender, race, and the mediation of the WNBA / Tara McPherson; title: View the world from American eyes : ball, Islam, and dissent in post-race America / Sohail Daulatzi; title: Hoop dreams in Black and white : race and basketball movies / Aaron Baker