Only a black athlete can save us now

Only a black athlete can save us now / Grant Farred.

Starting with the refusal of George Hill of the Milwaukee Bucks to participate in an August 2020 playoff game following the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Grant Farred shows how the Covid-restricted NBA "bubble" released an energy that spurred athletes into radica...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farred, Grant (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
Series:Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Subjects:
African American athletes > Political activity.
Protest movements > United States.
Protest movements
United States
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • The NBA and the WNBA Are the Most Progressive Forces in American Politics
  • From "Fear the Deer" to "Follow the Deer"
  • Out of One, Many
  • Reforming the Unreformable
  • Nur ein Gott kann uns jetzt Retten
  • Strange Things Happen in the Bubble
  • - "Hey, Chicago, What Do You Say?"
  • The WNBA Takes Its Stance
  • Colin Kaepernick
  • Silence Reverberates
  • The Peculiar Science of Black Athletic Entropy
  • The Burden of Over-Representation, Curiously Borne by Woods and Jordan
  • Change Is Everywhere, or So It Seems
  • Change Is Everywhere, Even the NHL
  • Biting the Hand That Feeds Them
  • A Pause for a Cause
  • Ontological Exhaustion
  • Inverse Displacement
  • Love, Unrequited
  • From L.A. to Kenosha
  • Harmolodics.

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