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"The National Basketball Association is a place where, without ever acknowledging it, white fans and black players enact and quietly explode virtually every racial issue and tension in the culture at large. In Black Planet, David Shields explores how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans - including especially himself - think about and talk about black heroes, black scapegoats, black bodies."--BOOK JACKET. "During the 1994-95 NBA season, Shields went to the Seattle SuperSonics' home games; watched their away games on TV; listened to interviews and call-in shows; talked, or tried to…
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Editions
3 editions- Paperback · English · 2006Bison Books · 226 pages · 9780803293540
- Other · English · 2000Three Rivers Press · 240 pages · 9780609806661
- Other · English · 1999Crown · 240 pages · 9780609604526
Sociological aspectsRace relationsBasketballDiariesDavid ShieldsSeattle SuperSonics (Basketball team)Discrimination in sportsSocial conditions
