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New jack jocks : rebels, race, and the American athlete / / Larry Platt



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Autore: Platt Larry Visualizza persona
Titolo: New jack jocks : rebels, race, and the American athlete / / Larry Platt Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia : , : Temple University Press, , 2002
©2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 196 pages)
Disciplina: 306.4/83/08996073
Soggetto topico: Athletes - United States
Sports - Social aspects - United States
Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; One: The New Jack Jock; 1. Spree's World; 2. Soul Members; 3. Pat and Allen's Tough Love Adventure; Two: The Anti-Hero; 4. Portrait of an Artist on the Court; 5. No Requiem Necessary; 6. In the Name of the Father; 7. The Unloved; 8. The Round Mound Bids Farewell; Three: The Entrepreneurs; 9. The Graying of Dr. J; 10. Magic Johnson Builds an Empire; 11. The Business of Rebellion; 12. Even the Ball Is White; 13. Jelly Maker; Acknowledgments
Sommario/riassunto: Latrell Sprewell. Allen Iverson. John McEnroe. Even Mohammed Ali and Mike Schmidt and Michael Jordan. These are characters of our national imagination, athletes who stand as symbols of our complex relationship with professional sport. In this erudite and captivating book, bestselling author Larry Platt takes us on a tour through American sports. Offering profiles of the athletes we love (and love to hate), Platt shows that sport, more than any other nationwide pastime, is the way we come to understand-and alter-race relations, gender, and, most profoundly, how we communicate with each ot
Titolo autorizzato: New jack jocks  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-01180-8
9786613011800
1-4399-0730-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817527303321
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