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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Grant Farred is associate professor in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is the editor of SAQ and the author of What’s My Name?: Black Vernacular Intellectuals.
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3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Very pertinent book,
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This review is from: Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA (Paperback)
A very pertinent book on a rarely discussed issue: Yao Ming as not just a basketball player, but a marker for a new kind of race relation in the NBA that falls outside the usual black-white paradigm, as well as a marker for the new global economy, in which even former communist countries like China export their talents to America. Farred's argument is at times very subtle but he is at his best in bringing to the fore issues of race, economics, and globalization that most of us who watch the NBA ignore.
I question whether the first reviewer even read the book. It just came out, and the idea that its already in his university library is a little far-fetched...
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An embarassment to Duke University.,
By Ompus (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA (Paperback)
I picked this book up at my University Library after reading some of its bizzare excerpts. It couldn't be as bad the reviewer held out. Wrong.
Its specious arguments, shaky facts, obscurant prose and unsupported conclusions should embarass Duke and Farred.
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