Black planet - Info and Reading Options
facing race during an NBA season
By David Shields
"Black planet" was published by Harmony Books in 1999 - New York, it has 223 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Black planet” Metadata:
- Title: Black planet
- Author: David Shields
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 223
- Publisher: Harmony Books
- Publish Date: 1999
- Publish Location: New York
- Dewey Decimal Classification: 796.323/64/08996073
- Library of Congress Classification: GV889.26 .S55 1999
“Black planet” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Sociological aspects - Race relations - Basketball - Diaries - David Shields - Seattle SuperSonics (Basketball team) - Discrimination in sports - Social conditions - Basketball fans - Sociological aspects of Basketball - African American basketball players - African americans in sports - United states, race relations - Shields, David, 1956- - Shields, David, - Shields, David (1956-)
- People: David Shields
- Places: Race relations - United States
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: 223 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL18281026M - OL2776004W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 40939904
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 99013084
- ISBN-10: 060960452X
- All ISBNs: 060960452X
AI-generated Review of “Black planet”:
Snippets and Summary:
11.5.94-My initial impression, as I stand next to the Seattle SuperSonics in the locker room an hour before the first game of the season, is that they're twelve utterly unconnected buildings; they convey no sense whatsoever that they're all part of a single city.
"Black planet" Description:
The Open Library:
"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. In Black Planet, David Shields explores how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans - including especially himself - think about and talk about black heroes, black scapegoats, black bodies."--BOOK JACKET. "During the 1994-95 NBA season, Shields went to the Seattle SuperSonics' home games; watched their away games on TV; listened to interviews and call-in shows; talked, or tried to talk, to players, coaches, and agents; attended charity events; corresponded with members of the Sonics newsgroup on the Web. He kept a journal and over the next few years transformed that journal into this book, which is focused sharply on white spectators' relationship to black athletes, in particular Shields' own identification with Gary Payton, the team's language-besotted point-guard."--BOOK JACKET.
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