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Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA
Grant Farred
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| #1770878 in Books | 2006-09-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.00 x.60 x4.50l,.21 | File type: PDF | 100 pages||3 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Very pertinent book|By A. Koshal|A very pertinent book on a rarely discussed issue: Yao Ming as not just a basketball player, but a marker for a new kind of race relation in the NBA that falls outside the usual black-white paradigm, as well as a marker for the new global economy, in which even former communist countries like China export their talents to America. Farred's argu|About the Author|
Grant Farred is associate professor in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is the editor of SAQ and the author of What’s My Name?: Black Vernacular Intellectuals.||
In the twenty-first century, the idea of race in sports is rapidly changing. The National Basketball Association, for instance, was recently home to a new kind of racial conflict. After a recent playoff loss, Houston head coach Jeff Van Gundy alleged that Yao Ming, his Chinese star center, was the victim of phantom calls, or refereeing decisions that may have been ethnically biased. Grant Farred here shows how this incident can be seen as a pivotal moment in the glo...
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