The game is not a game : the power, protest, and politics of American sports /
"Part play-by-play, part op-ed, The Game Is Not a Game is an illuminating and unflinching examination of the good and evil in the sports industry. Liberating and provocative, with sharp wit and generous humor, Jackson's essays explore the role that sports plays in American society and the...
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Chicago :
Haymarket Books,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The "Race" to the Finish
- NFL : The American Hypocrisy
- #THEMTOO : The UnRespected Worth of the Woman Athlete
- White and Woke : The Quiet, Not-So-Risky, but So Necessary Politics of Gregg Popovich and Steve Kerr (An Abstract Myth)
- Colin Kaepernick : The Symbol versus the Shield versus the US versus Us
- Ball or Fall : The Re-Characterization of LaVar Ball
- Their Eyes Were Watching a God : Our Miseducation of LeBron James
- Buoyancy Matters
- Formation : An Interview with Jemele Hill
- Illmatic : The NCAA's Fraud Perfection (A Novella)
- #BaseballSoWhite : Making a Curious, Theoretical, Disturbing, Outrageous Case for Jackie Bradley Jr.
- Fake News : The Tricknology of the Great American Sports Argument
- The "Numb" in Numbers : How Analytics Is Becoming the NBA's NewJim Crow
- I (Still) Can't Breathe : Players versus Ownership versus Community and the Politics of Social Activism in American Professional Athletics
- Epilogue: Eddie.