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Ball Don't Lie: Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball

Ball Don't Lie: Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball - Paperback

by Yago Colás
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Availability:In StockContributor:Yago ColásSeries:SportingPublish date:2016-04-05Pages:200
Language:EnglishPublisher:Temple University PressISBN-13:9781439912430ISBN-10:1439912432UPC:9781439912430Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Basketball, SociologySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCP2YY0P2T

Ball Don't Lie: Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball

Pro basketball player Rasheed Wallace often exclaimed the pragmatic truth "Ball don't lie!" during a game. It is a protest against a referee's bad calls. But the slogan, which originated in pickup games, brings the reality of a racialized urban playground into mainstream American popular culture.

In Ball Don't Lie!, Yago Colás traces the various forms of power at work in the intersections...

Series: Sporting
Language:EnglishPublisher:Temple University PressISBN-13:9781439912430ISBN-10:1439912432UPC:9781439912430Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Basketball, SociologySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCP2YY0P2T

Yago Colás teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature and in the Residential College at the University of Michigan and is the author of Postmodernity in Latin America: The Argentine Paradigm.


Publisher: Temple University Press

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