Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America - Brossura

Lewis, Thabiti

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0883783118 ISBN 13: 9780883783115

Casa editrice: Third World Pr, 2010

Riassunto

"Ballers of the New School is indeed an apropos title for Thabiti Lewis's Challenging and innovative take on a new generation of black athletes. Punctuated with striking candor and an adroit understanding of contemporary popular cuture, Lewis's Ballers of the New School is a much needed addition to scholarship on race and sports." ---Mark Anthony Neal, author of New Black Man

"Coming out of nowhere like a Mike Tyson uppercut, Thabiti Lewis's Ballers of the New School is a shock to the system. Rarely has the intersection of sports and race and race-ISM been discussed with such bracing honesty, such generosity and such anger born of love. It's an absolute stunner." ---Dave Zirin, author of A People's History of Sports in the United States

Ballers of the New School is a timely and important work. At once a scholarly triumph, powerful social critique, and moving personal story, it challenges readers to set aside received wisdom that sports are the epitome of racial harmony and progress and reflect seriously on structures of racial inequality and how African Americans have struggled against them. Lewis is to be commended for pairing a penetrating critical analysis with an impassioned call for action directed at players, gatekeepers, and fans." ---Richard King, Washington State University, Ethnic Studies Chairman

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Thabiti Lewis teaches English at Washington State University Vancouver. He also has worked as a journalist, and talk radio host. He obtained his Ph.D.in English from Saint Louis University. In addition toBallers of the New School: Race and Sport in America he is working on multiple projects about the writer Toni Cade Bambara.

Product Description:

"Ballers of the New School" uses American sports culture to challenge and explore notions of race in America. Dr. Lewis pushes back against topics such as anti-intellectualism, jingoism, and exploitation in collegiate athletics, as well as the role of sports culture in cultivating notions of masculinity. The book fearlessly critiques and challenges the notion that sports culture has altruistically functioned as a progressive pioneer of social and racial progress and offers a re-examination of the narrative of American sport as a leading contributor to racial progress by pointing to glass ceilings in areas of leadership on and off fields of play. The reconstructions as well as challenges to modern athletes that "Ballers of the New School" offers makes it a usable book of sometimes uncomfortable, but necessary truths.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Third World Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0883783118
• ISBN 13: 9780883783115
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 303