Phantom Calls
Race and the Globalization of the NBA
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Word Count
25,000 words, Guess
Page Count
100 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-10097614753X
- ISBN-139780976147534
- Library of Congress Control Number2007282298
- Library of Congress Control Number2006903876
- OCLC Control Number71195402
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780976147534
- Open LibraryOL8586892M
Classifications
- LCCGV706.32 .F37 2006
- LCCGV706.32.F37 2006
Description
"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 40 percent of its players coming from foreign nations, the idea of race in the NBA has become increasingly multifaceted. Farred explains how allegations of phantom calls such as Van Gundy's challenge the fiction that America is a post-racial society and compel us to think in new ways about the nexus of race and racism in America."--Jacket.
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