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Black Planet : Facing Race During an NBA Season
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Black Planet : Facing Race During an NBA Season Paperback - 2006

by Shields, David

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  • Title Black Planet : Facing Race During an NBA Season
  • Author Shields, David
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 226
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Nebraska Press
  • Date 2006-12-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6232919-6
  • ISBN 9780803293540 / 0803293542
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Race relations, Discrimination in sports - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006003884
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.323

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11.5.94-My initial impression, as I stand next to the Seattle SuperSonics in the locker room an hour before the first game of the season, is that they're twelve utterly unconnected buildings; they convey no sense whatsoever that they're all part of a single city.

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About the author

David Shields is the author of several other books, including the novels Dead Languages and Heroes (available in a Bison Books edition). His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and the Village Voice. Shields, a recent Guggenheim fellow, is a professor of English at the University of Washington. Gerald Graff is a professor of English and education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His most recent books are Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind and (with Cathy Birkenstein) "They Say/I Say" The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing.