Living Through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream

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In his study of the soaring myths and ugly realities surrounding the world of high school basketball, May ("Talking at Trenas") does the math: of the 530,000-odd high school basketball players this nation fielded in 2001, a mere 405 ever played professionally. This works out to a measly .001 probabilitya fact that doesnt keep the kids he helps coach in a mostly black, poverty-stricken Georgia neighborhood from dreaming of the big time. More…

Author: Reuben A Buford May · Original publisher: New York University Press (2007)

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