Under the Boards: The Cultural Revolution in Basketball - Softcover

Lane, Jeffrey

 
9780803280533: Under the Boards: The Cultural Revolution in Basketball
Softcover
ISBN 10: 080328053X ISBN 13: 9780803280533
Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

The true story of basketball lives as much off the court as on the hardwood; it is about politics and race and cultural clashes as heated as a final-four buzzer-beater. This story unfolds in all its gritty and colorful detail in Under the Boards. From the birth of the Larry Bird legend to the ascendancy of a hip-hop-infused NBA to the backlash against bling and the contemporary American game, Jeffrey Lane traces the emergence of a new culture of basketball, complete with competing values, attitudes, aesthetics, and racial and economic tensions.
 
The revolution Lane describes resonates in the way Latrell Sprewell&;s assault on his coach forever changed NBA power relations; in legendary coach Bob Knight&;s entanglement in high school basketball history; in the dramatic shift in attitude toward European players; in the impact of the deaths of two rappers on rookie Allen Iverson&;s career; and in conflicting cultural models rooted in ideals of black masculinity and white nostalgia. In these moments Lane&;s book documents a profound change in basketball and in American culture over the last thirty years.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jeffrey Lane is the founder and director of Schoolhouse Tutors, a mentoring program for middle and high school students in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

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Verlag
UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
080328053X
ISBN 13 
9780803280533
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
260
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