Black Ball :
Runstedtler, Theresa
Black Ball : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA / Theresa Runstedtler - First trade paperback edition - xiv, 355 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes index
"Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black players entered the league, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public were quick to blame this cohort for the supposed decline of pro-basketball, citing drugs, violence, and greed. Basketball became a symbol for post-civil rights America: the rules had changed, allowing more Black people onto the playing field, and now they were ruining everything. Enter Black Ball, a gripping corrective in which scholar Theresa Runstedtler expertly rewrites basketball's "Dark Ages." Weaving together a deep knowledge of the game with incisive social analysis, Runstedtler argues that this much-aligned period was pivotal to the rise of the modern-day NBA."--Page 4 of cover
9781645036975 RM 109.95
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 1947-
Haywood, Spencer, 1949-
National Basketball Association --History--20th century
National Basketball Association
African American basketball players --History --20th century
African American basketball players --Biography
Basketball --Social aspects --History--20th century--United States
United States --Race relations --History --20th century
Biographies
796.323640973
Black Ball : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA / Theresa Runstedtler - First trade paperback edition - xiv, 355 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes index
"Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black players entered the league, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public were quick to blame this cohort for the supposed decline of pro-basketball, citing drugs, violence, and greed. Basketball became a symbol for post-civil rights America: the rules had changed, allowing more Black people onto the playing field, and now they were ruining everything. Enter Black Ball, a gripping corrective in which scholar Theresa Runstedtler expertly rewrites basketball's "Dark Ages." Weaving together a deep knowledge of the game with incisive social analysis, Runstedtler argues that this much-aligned period was pivotal to the rise of the modern-day NBA."--Page 4 of cover
9781645036975 RM 109.95
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 1947-
Haywood, Spencer, 1949-
National Basketball Association --History--20th century
National Basketball Association
African American basketball players --History --20th century
African American basketball players --Biography
Basketball --Social aspects --History--20th century--United States
United States --Race relations --History --20th century
Biographies
796.323640973