{"product_id":"black-planet-facing-race-during-an-nba-season","title":"Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eCritically acclaimed and highly controversial, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBlack Planet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN USA Award and was named a Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 1999 by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEsquire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNewsday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLA Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e During the 1994‚Äì1995 NBA season, David Shields attended nearly all of the Seattle SuperSonics‚Äô home games; watched on TV nearly all their away games; listened to countless pre- and post-game interviews and call-in shows on the radio; spoke or tried to speak to players, coaches, agents, journalists, fans, his wife; corresponded with members of the Sonics newsgroup on the internet; read innumerable articles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‚ÄúAlthough I‚Äôm a passionate basketball fan and Sonics fan,‚Äù Shields wrote in the author‚Äôs note to the original publication of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBlack Planet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, ‚ÄúI wasn‚Äôt interested in the game per se‚Äîwho won, who lost, the minutiae of strategy. I was interested in how the game gets talked about. By the end of the season I‚Äôd accumulated hundreds of of often utterly illegible notes, the roughest of rough drafts. Over the next three years I transformed those notes into this book‚Äîa daily journal that runs the length of one team‚Äôs long-forgotten season and that is now focused, to the point of obsession, on how white people (including especially myself) think about and talk about black heroes, black scapegoats, black bodies.‚Äù\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBlack Planet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e changed sports journalism and remains a prophetic book on America and race. This edition features a new foreword by Bryan Curtis.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expandev\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50340195336477,"sku":"9781496242211","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781496242211.jpg?v=1757516721","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/black-planet-facing-race-during-an-nba-season","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}