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Hoop Roots Hardcover - 2001
by Wideman, John Edgar
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- Hardcover
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Details
- Title Hoop Roots
- Author Wideman, John Edgar
- Illustrator Melissa Lotfy
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company, New York
- Date 2001
- Bookseller's Inventory # 000036
- ISBN 9780395857311 / 0395857317
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 6.34 x 0.96 in (21.34 x 16.10 x 2.44 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, African American authors
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001026455
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Summary
As a boy, Wideman lived in his grandparents’ worn but welcoming home in the ghettoized Homewood section of Pittsburgh. It was a world presided over by women, forever coddling, scolding, protective. One day John slipped away from their watchful gaze and escaped to a place where white factory workers shot hoops on their breaks. Then someone handed him a ball. That thrilling first shot was a turning point. Later he sneaked from his dying grandmother’s bedside to the courts where other black boys gathered. Here he really learned the game the African-American game, whose style and power would change him and our culture.
With Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk as his model, Wideman combines memoir with history, folklore, and commentary to create a magical evocation of his unique slice of American experience. He imagines the Harlem Globetrotters in 1927, on their way to the Illinois town where the only black resident will be lynched. A playground game in Greenwich Village conjures Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and the sources of black minstrelsy. African-American language, culture, music, and sport brilliantly interweave in a lyrical narrative that glides from nostalgic to outraged, from scholarly to streetwise, from defiant to celebratory.
Like his previous memoirs, Wideman’s Hoop Roots is both deeply personal and fiercely resonant.