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Author
Series
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 182 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this book Thomas Aiello considers the special cultural function of professional basketball in the Deep South for more than a quarter century between 1947 and 1979. Next to their counterparts in baseball and football, basketball fans enjoyed a unique intimacy with their favorite players, who showed more of their bodies and had nothing covering their face and head. For this and other similar reasons, blackness simply mattered more in basketball...
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