Selling streetball: racialized space,commercialized spectacle,and playground basketball |
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Authors: | Thomas P Oates |
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Institution: | Department of American Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper outlines plans for a research project on representations of basketball in New York City. It argues that a highly performative style of playground basketball strongly associated with racialized urban ghettos, often referred to as “streetball,” has become a significant way that basketball-related products has been marketed in the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. These marketing efforts are an important source of popular fantasy about the “iconic ghetto,” and work to maintain racialized spatial relations in the U.S. |
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Keywords: | Sport race basketball urban space |
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