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26%OFFOnaje X. O. Woodbine - Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball - 9780231177283 - V9780231177283
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Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball

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Description for Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRLK; JFSG; JFSL3; WSJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370.
J-Rod moves like a small tank on the court, his face mean, staring down his opponents. I play just like my father, he says. Before my father died, he was a problem on the court. I'm a problem. Playing basketball for him fuses past and present, conjuring his father's memory into a force that opponents can feel in each bone-snapping drive to the basket. On the street, every ballplayer has a story. Onaje X. O. Woodbine, a former streetball player who became an all-star Ivy Leaguer, brings the sights and sounds, hopes and dreams of street ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
369g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231177283
SKU
V9780231177283
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About Onaje X. O. Woodbine
Onaje X. O. Woodbine teaches philosophy and religious studies at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he lives on campus with his family.

Reviews for Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball
This timely and groundbreaking book is about basketball as lived religion in some of America's most dangerous neighborhoods. But more centrally it is about grief expressed and hope conjured as seen through the lens of a stellar young scholar who has been there and through the eyes of young black men who, though weighed down by the forces of death, ... Read more

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