LeBron James is the hero in two very American tales: one, a success story the nation loves; the other, the latest installment in an ongoing chronicle of American antiblackness. He uses his celebrity not to transcend Blackness, but to give it a place of cultural prominence, and the backlash he receives exposes the frictions between Blackness and a country not fully comfortable with its presence. As a result, James’s story is a revelatory narrative of how much Blackness is loved, hated, misunderstood, and just plain cool in an America that has changed and yet not changed at all.
- Publisher: PublicAffairs
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Publication date:
28/11/2023
- ISBN: 9781541702042
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Page extent:
304
- Format: Hardback
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Dimensions:
237 mm x 153 mm
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