Black Planet: Facing Race During an Nba Season - Rilegato

Shields, David

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ISBN 10: 060960452X ISBN 13: 9780609604526

Casa editrice: Crown Pub, 1999

Riassunto

The acclaimed author of Remote and a lifelong basketball fan provides a season-long study of the Seattle Sonics, discussing the players, coaches, agents, games, fans, and the role of race in a sport dominated by African-American athletes. 35,000 first printing.

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"Black Planet [is] a risky and brilliant book.  . . . It compares favorably to Frederick Exley's classic A Fan's Notes. It is an emotional journey into Jock Culture's heart of darkness. . . . Shields [is] willing to write himself naked about the hungers and envies that move across the grandstand like the wave."        
--Robert Lipsyte, The New York Times

"In Black Planet, David Shields honestly (and ironically) uses himself as a test subject to peel away the layers of personal need, sexual longing, cultural sedimentation, alienation, and blatant prejudice that make even a season of the Seattle SuperSonics a disturbing microcosm of America's 300-year-old Race War. You don't need to be a sports fan to experience this book as a rare, troubling map of the seldom charted, subterranean regions of the souls of white folks."        
--Charles Johnson

"Black Planet is a funny, wickedly observant, highly intelligent book about Us and Them--I and Thou, black and white, male and female, parent and child,
spectator and star."        
--Jonathan Raban

"Black Planet offers us a sometimes moving, often funny, and always absorbing account of a season in pro basketball--in which we learn much about one team but even more about those volatile forces, including racism, greed, vanity, and ignorance, that make the NBA such a compelling metaphor for American culture today."        
--Arnold Rampersad

"Black Planet is an extraordinary, unique, and utterly fascinating memoir/book. With unblinking honesty and unabashed affection for his subject, Shields makes a real contribution to the national non-discourse on race."
--Bob Shacochis

"A compulsively readable book. David Shields, as no writer before him, takes you into the obsessive mind of a sports addict: its shames and glories, over-identifications, repetitions, rationalizations, wonderments, and stoical detachment. I recognize myself only too well."        
--Phillip Lopate

"Black Planet says it's about basketball when it's actually that rare thing, an honest love song, White Man Loves Black Athlete--you know, the tune with the refrain, 'Dear NBA Genie, make me hip, angry, and always, always in control.'  A song that's frank, embarrassing, and killingly funny."        
--Jay Cantor

L'autore

David Shields' previous books are Remote, Dead Languages, A Handbook for Drowning, and Heroes.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Crown Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 060960452X
• ISBN 13: 9780609604526
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 223