Phantom Calls: Race And the Globalization of the Nba - Couverture souple

Farred, Grant

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 097614753X ISBN 13 : 9780976147534

Editeur : Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC, 2006

Synopsis

In the twenty-first century, the idea of race in sports is rapidly changing. The National Basketball Association, for instance, was recently home to a new kind of racial conflict. After a recent playoff loss, Houston head coach Jeff Van Gundy alleged that Yao Ming, his Chinese star center, was the victim of phantom calls, or refereeing decisions that may have been ethnically biased. Grant Farred here shows how this incident can be seen as a pivotal moment in the globalization of the NBA. With some forty percent of its players coming from foreign nations, the idea of race in the NBA has become increasingly multifaceted. Farred explains how allegations of phantom calls such as Van Gundy's challenge the fiction that America is a post-racial society and compel us to think in new ways about the nexus of race and racism in America.

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À propos de l'auteur

Grant Farred is the author of Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA, also published by Prickly Paradigm.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 097614753X
• ISBN 13: 9780976147534
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible