Black Men on the Blacktop: Basketball and the Politics of Race
| By: | A. Rafik Mohamed |
| Publisher: | Lynne Rienner Publishers |
| Print ISBN: | 9781626376786 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781626377172 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2017 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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What is it about basketball that makes it "the black man’s game"? And what about pickup basketball in particular: can it tell us something about the state of blackness in the United States? Reflecting on these questions, Rafik Mohamed presents pickup games as a text of the political, social, and economic struggles of African American men. In the process, he tells a story about race in its peculiarly American context, and about how the politics of race--and resistance--are mediated through sports.