New jack jocks : rebels, race, and the American athlete / Larry Platt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Platt, Larry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Athletes--United States--Biography.

Athletes.

Sports--Social aspects--United States.

Sports.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 196 pages)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Latrell Sprewell. Allen Iverson. John McEnroe. Even Mohammed Ali and Mike Schmidt and Michael Jordan. These are characters of our national imagination, athletes who stand as symbols of our complex relationship with professional sport. In this erudite and captivating book, bestselling author Larry Platt takes us on a tour through American sports. Offering profiles of the athletes we love (and love to hate), Platt shows that sport, more than any other nationwide pastime, is the way we come to understand-and alter-race relations, gender, and, most profoundly, how we communicate with each ot

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; One: The New Jack Jock; 1. Spree's World; 2. Soul Members; 3. Pat and Allen's Tough Love Adventure; Two: The Anti-Hero; 4. Portrait of an Artist on the Court; 5. No Requiem Necessary; 6. In the Name of the Father; 7. The Unloved; 8. The Round Mound Bids Farewell; Three: The Entrepreneurs; 9. The Graying of Dr. J; 10. Magic Johnson Builds an Empire; 11. The Business of Rebellion; 12. Even the Ball Is White; 13. Jelly Maker; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-01180-8

9786613011800

1-4399-0730-7

OCLC:

705538176