Phantom Calls
Subtitle: Race and the Globalization of the NBA
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press
Published: September 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780976147534
Subjects: Racism & racial discrimination; Sports & Recreation; Globalization; Sports; USA; Basketball - Professional; Sociology of Sports; Sports & Recreation / Basketball; Discrimination & Racism; Basketball - General; Basketball; Racism in sports; Sports and globalization; United States
Description: "In the twenty-first century, the idea of race in sports is rapidly changing. The National Basketball Association, for instance, was recently home to a new kind of racial conflict. After a recent playoff loss, Houston head coach Jeff Van Gundy alleged that Yao Ming, his Chinese star center, was the victim of phantom calls, or refereeing decisions that may have been ethnically biased. Grant Farred here shows how this incident can be seen as a pivotal moment in the globalization of the NBA. With some 40 percent of its players coming from foreign nations, the idea of race in the NBA has become increasingly multifaceted. Farred explains how allegations of phantom calls such as Van Gundy's challenge the fiction that America is a post-racial society and compel us to think in new ways about the nexus of race and racism in America."--Jacket.