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Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season

By (author) David Shields, Introduction by Gerald Graff, Foreword by Bryan Curtis

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Critically acclaimed and highly controversial, Black Planet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN USA Award and was named a Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 1999 by Esquire, Newsday, and LA Weekly. During the 1994â€“1995 NBA season, David Shields attended nearly all of the Seattle SuperSonicsâ€™ home games; watched on TV nearly all their away games; listened to countless pre- and post-game interviews and call-in shows on the radio; spoke or tried to speak to players, coaches, agents, journalists, fans, his wife; corresponded with members of the Sonics newsgroup on the internet; read innumerable articles. â€œAlthough Iâ€™m a passionate basketball fan and Sonics fan,â€ Shields wrote in the authorâ€™s note to the original publication of Black Planet, â€œI wasnâ€™t interested in the game per se-who won, who lost, the minutiae of strategy. I was interested in how the game gets talked about. By the end of the season Iâ€™d accumulated hundreds of pages of often utterly illegible notes, the roughest of rough drafts. Over the next three years I transformed those notes into this book-a daily journal that runs the length of one teamâ€™s long-forgotten season and that is now focused, to the point of obsession, on how white people (including especially myself) think about and talk about Black heroes, Black scapegoats, Black bodies.â€ Black Planet changed sports journalism and remains a prophetic book on America and race. This edition features a new foreword by Bryan Curtis. Â