Hoop Roots : Basketball, Race, and Love - 5 Angebote vergleichen

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Add-More Books.
Many: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. .X-Library with normal flaws..........The hard cover and the jacket has light shelf wear ....The spine has been glued at the pages........Check out our books on tape....We ship everyday or next day........We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by.. 1st. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Illus. by Cover Art. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Back.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Free State Books.
Hoop Roots is John Edgar Wideman’s memoir of discovering the game that has been his singular passion for nearly fifty years. It is equally, inevitably, the story of the roots of black basketball in America — a story inextricable from race, culture, love, and home. As a boy, Wideman lived in his grandparents’ worn but welcoming home in the ghettoized Homewood section of Pittsburgh. It was a world presided over by women, forever coddling, scolding, protective. One day John slipped away from their watchful gaze and escaped to a place where white factory workers shot hoops on their breaks. Then someone handed him a ball. That thrilling first shot was a turning point. Later he sneaked from his dying grandmother’s bedside to the courts where other black boys gathered. Here he really learned the game — the African-American game, whose style and power would change him and our culture. With Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk as his model, Wideman combines memoir with history, folklore, and commentary to create a magical evocation of his unique slice of American experience. He imagines the Harlem Globetrotters in 1927, on their way to the Illinois town where the only black resident will be lynched. A playground game in Greenwich Village conjures Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and the sources of black minstrelsy. African-American language, culture, music, and sport brilliantly interweave in a lyrical narrative that glides from nostalgic to outraged, from scholarly to streetwise, from defiant to celebratory. Like his previous memoirs, Wideman’s Hoop Roots is both deeply personal and fiercely resonant., Hardcover, Ausgabe: First Edition, Label: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2001-10-10, Studio: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Verkaufsrang: 835473.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Hippo Books, OH, Toledo, [RE:4].
Pages may have contain writing, highlighting or notes. May be an ex library copy with library markings. Dust jacket or accessories may not be included. Hardcover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Bank of Books.
Houghton Mifflin, 10 October, 2001. Hardcover. VeryGood/VERY GOOD.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Motor City Books, MI, Brownstown, [RE:5].
Hardcover.