Title: New Jack Jocks
First published: April 2002
Description: "In this erudite and captivating book, author Larry Platt takes us on his own unique tour through American sports. Culled from a decade of writing about our games and the people who play them, Platt offers exclusive profiles of the athletes we love--and love to hate ... In these and other profiles, Platt shows that sport, more than any other nationwide pastime, is the way that we come to understand--and alter--race relations, gender, and, most profoundly, how we communicate with each other in ways often ignored by social commentators"--Inside front jacket cover.
Subjects: Race relations, Rassenkonflikt, Sociology of Sports, Social aspects, SPORTS & RECREATION, Sports, Sportsoziologie, General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Essays, Sport, Athletes, Biography, Athletes, united states, Sports, social aspects, United states, race relations