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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. |
