Basketball Jones : America above the rim /
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New York :
New York University Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Privileges and immunities for basketball stars and other sports heroes? / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
- Why baseball was the Black national pastime / Gerald Early
- Gladiators, gazelles, and groupies : basketball love and loathing / Julianne Malveaux
- Mo' money, mo' problems : keepin' it real in the post-Jordan era / Todd Boyd
- The white shadow / Larry Platt
- Deconstructing the NBA / Kenneth L. Shropshire
- Blue-collar law and basketball / Mark Conrad
- African American ownership : Bob Douglas and the Rens / Susan J. Rayl
- Incivility and basketball / Earl Smith
- Attacking the rim : the cultural politics of dunking / Davis W. Houck
- Retelevising a revolution : commercial basketball and a chat with Gil Scott-Heron / James Peterson
- Sheroes over the rim : a brave new women's basketball world / Tina Sloan Green and Alpha Alexander
- Who's got next? Gender, race, and the mediation of the WNBA / Tara McPherson
- View the world from American eyes : ball, Islam, and dissent in post-race America / Sohail Daulatzi
- Hoop dreams in Black and white : race and basketball movies / Aaron Baker.