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Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season
Black Planet Facing Race During an NBA Season Author:David Shields 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. Following the Seattle SuperSonics for an entire season, David Shields explores how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans -- including e... more »specially himself -- think about and talk about black heroes, black scapegoats, black bodies. Critically acclaimed and highly controversial, Black Planet is, in the words of Robert Lipsyte of the New York Times, "a risky and brilliant book."
Black Planet, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism and the PEN West Award in creative nonfiction, was named one of the "Top Ten Nonfiction Books of the Year" by Esquire, Newsday, LA Weekly, and Amazon.com.« less