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Phantom Calls
Grant Farred
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Description for Phantom Calls
Paperback. After a playoff loss, Houston head coach, Jeff Van Gundy alleged that Yao Ming, his Chinese star center, was the victim of phantom calls. This book shows how this incident can be seen as a pivotal moment in the globalization of the NBA. It also explains how allegations of phantom calls challenge the fiction that America is a post-racial society. Num Pages: 100 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL; WSJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 177 x 118 x 6. Weight in Grams: 98.
In the twenty-first century, the idea of race in sports is rapidly changing. The National Basketball Association, for instance, was recently home to a new kind of racial conflict. After a recent playoff loss, Houston head coach, Jeff Van Gundy alleged that Yao Ming, his Chinese star center, was the victim of phantom calls, or refereeing decisions that may have been ethnically biased. Grant Farred here shows how this incident can be seen as a pivotal moment in the globalization of the NBA. With some forty percent of its players coming from foreign nations, the idea of race in the ... Read more
In the twenty-first century, the idea of race in sports is rapidly changing. The National Basketball Association, for instance, was recently home to a new kind of racial conflict. After a recent playoff loss, Houston head coach, Jeff Van Gundy alleged that Yao Ming, his Chinese star center, was the victim of phantom calls, or refereeing decisions that may have been ethnically biased. Grant Farred here shows how this incident can be seen as a pivotal moment in the globalization of the NBA. With some forty percent of its players coming from foreign nations, the idea of race in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC United States
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
Number of Pages
100
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780976147534
SKU
V9780976147534
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About Grant Farred
Grant Farred is associate professor in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is the editor of SAQ and the author of What's My Name?: Black Vernacular Intellectuals.
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