Description
Chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled to being embraced and imitated
About the Author
Todd Boyd is the Katherine and Frank Price Endowed Chair for the Study of Race and Popular Culture and professor of critical studies in the University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts. He is also a media commentator and author whose six books include The Notorious PhD's Guide to the Super Fly '70s, The New H.N.I.C., and Am I Black Enough For You?
Reviews
"A powerful and provocative history of modern basketball and how issues of race, class and popular culture have played out both on and off the basketball court."-Publishers Weekly
"An insightful look at how African American basketball players and rappers have gone from being reviled by mainstream audiences to being imitated around the world."-Essence
"Boyd effortlessly threads the past thirty years of basketball culture, the cost of being outspoken, and the pressures of a power structure and media glare that both cheers and reviles."-Upscale
Book Information
ISBN 9780803216754
Author Todd Boyd
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Bison Books
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Weight(grams) 295g