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Phantom Calls - Race and the Globalization of the NBA (Paperback)
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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.
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