Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA / Edition 1

by Grant Farred

Overview

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 globalization of the NBA. With some forty percent of its players coming from foreign nations, the idea of race in the NBA has become increasingly multifaceted. Farred explains how allegations of phantom calls such as Van Gundy’s challenge the fiction that America is a post-racial society and compel us to think in new ways about the nexus of race and racism in America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780976147534
Publisher:	Prickly Paradigm Press
Publication date:	09/25/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Grant Farred is the author of Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA, also published by Prickly Paradigm.

Table of Contents

Introduction
 
Son of the "Whore of Asia"
 
Who Can Speak of Race?
 
Speaking For
 
Living with the Outcome:  Effects of the Age of Deng
 
Anti-Americanism, Sui Generis
 
"The Dark Side of the Moon"
 
Acknowledgments