Decoding the Racial Subtext of Basketball: An Obsessive Fan Meditates on White Writers and Black Bodies; Black Planet; Facing Race During an NBA Season

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Kriegel, Leonard
Forward
07-14-2000
Decoding the Racial Subtext of Basketball: An Obsessive Fan Meditates on
White Writers and Black Bodies; Black Planet; Facing Race During an NBA
Season

By LEONARD KRIEGEL

By David Shields

Crown, 223 pages, $23.

`The athlete may be a contemporary hero, but he is not necessarily a model
of manhood." I wrote that sentence 20 years ago in a book called "On Men
and Manhood," and as if to demonstrate that the times have not changed as
much as Bob Dylan predicted they would, David Shields offers us "Black
Planet," his diary of the 1994-95 NBA season spent in impassioned ...

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