Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders—
home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls—is where it first came to national prominence. And it's …

Recent studies on basketball employ Elijah Anderson's decent-street dichotomy. In these
works, institutional basketball is “decent” and unifying, whereas pickup basketball is “street” …

This is the first academic study to investigate and compare the lived experience of black
Africans who reside in Australia and New Zealand. All twenty research participants in this …

This essay focuses on contemporary sociology-of-race scholarship. Most sociological race
scholarship is assimilationist in that it focuses on removing structural barriers to full …

In distressed communities such as the West Side of Charleston, WV, young men affected by
mass incarceration and the school-to-prison pipeline report that a combination of Christian …

This is the theory chapter. It introduces the concept of the uncommodified blackness image.
Additionally, it comprehensively traces the genealogy and the discursive themes of the …

This essay considers the competing ideologies of hard work and natural talent when
talkingabout sporting greatness. Dispelling the myth of the “racial gift” is one of the aims of …

This dissertation examines the motivations behind black male" hoop dreams." Other
scholars have argued that young black males in the United States are" pushed by poverty" …

This dissertation examines the motivations behind black male" hoop dreams." Other
scholars have argued that young black males in the United States are" pushed by poverty" …