Ballers of the New School
Race and Sports in America
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Ballers of the New School
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Thabiti Lewis
Summary
Ballers of the New School is one of the first and best books to come along that effectively explains contemporary athletes and the public response to them. It asks listeners to consider the role of race in the sweaty as well as the sweat-free zones of sport. It challenges the well-worn narrative of sport as America's most significant site of racial progress by scrutinizing the true role of sport in mobilizing and shaping definitions, social relations, and public life.
American sport culture performs and propagates rituals, symbols, and expressions of fear and difference that sustain racism, and notions of racial supremacy and block bridges to racial progress.
The text encourages a restructuring of the power of the racial subtexts thrust into sporting arenas, upon the bodies of athletes of color, and into the mind and hearts of spectators via the racial contract. The book's impetus is for listeners to emerge with more truthful narratives, more honest dialogues, better American values, better social relations, and hopefully, using this new vision of sports culture as a model, real change.
©2010 Thabiti Lewis (P)2026 Recorded Books