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Black Ball

By Theresa Runstedtler

Black Ball

By Theresa Runstedtler

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A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation’s imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black players entered the league, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public were quick to blame this cohort for the supposed decline of pro-basketball, citing drugs, violence, and greed. Basketball became a symbol for post–civil rights America: the rules had changed, allowing more Black people onto the playing field, and now they were ruining everything.   Enter Black Ball, a gripping corrective in which scholar Theresa Runstedtler expertly rewrites basketball’s “Dark Ages.” Weaving together a deep knowledge of the game with incisive social analysis, Runstedtler argues that this much-maligned period was pivotal to the rise of the modern-day NBA.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
2024-10-08
Publication Date:
2024-10-08
Publisher:
Bold Type Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1645036979
ISBN13:
9781645036975
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
525 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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