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Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball
Onaje Woodbine
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| #697880 in Books | imusti | 2016-05-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.90 x5.70l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | Columbia University Press||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Slam dunk|By Lisa Luisa|Shortly after I heard Onaje X.O. Woodbine talk about the book on NPR, I ordered it. I am glad I did. As a sportswriter, I covered NCAA Division I college basketball in Los Angeles during the 1990s and had a great working relationship with some influential coaches in the Black Coaches Association. Through the lense of sports, I have seen first hand some o||This timely and groundbreaking book is about basketball as lived religion in some of America's most dangerous neighborhoods. But more centrally it is about grief expressed and hope conjured as seen through the lens of a stellar young scholar who has been there
J-Rod moves like a small tank on the court, his face mean, staring down his opponents. "I play just like my father," he says. "Before my father died, he was a problem on the court. I'm a problem." Playing basketball for him fuses past and present, conjuring his father's memory into a force that opponents can feel in each bone-snapping drive to the basket.
On the street, every ballplayer has a story. Onaje X. O. Woodbine, a former streetball player who became an a...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball | Onaje Woodbine.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
