From its early days as a sport to build "muscular Christianity"
among young men flooding nineteenth-century cities to its position
today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a
force in American society. It grew through high school gymnasiums,
college pep rallies, and the fits and starts of
professionalization. It was a playground game, an urban game, tied
to all of the caricatures that were associated with urban culture.
It struggled with integration and representations of race. Today,
basketball's influence seeps into film, music, dance, and fashion.
Hoops tells the story of the reciprocal relationship between the
sport and the society that received it. While many books have
celebrated specific aspects of the game, Thomas Aiello presents the
only contemporary cultural history of the sport from the street to
the highest levels of professional mens and womens competition. He
argues that the game has existed in a reciprocal relationship with
the broader culture, both embodying conflicts over race, class, and
gender and serving a s public theater for them. Aiello places
cultural icons like Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, and Kobe Bryant
in the context of their times and explores how the sport negotiated
controversies and scandals. Hoops belongs on the bookshelf of every
reader interested in the history of basketball, sports, race, urban
life, and pop culture in America.
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