Dixieball: Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947-1979

by Thomas Aiello

In this book Thomas Aiello considers the special cultural function of professional basketball in the Deep South over the half century between 1947 and 1979. Next to their counterparts in baseball and football, basketball fans enjoyed a unique intimacy with their favorite players, who showed more of their bodies and had nothing covering their face and head. For this and other similar reasons, blackness simply mattered more in basketball than it did...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621904636
• ISBN13: 9781621904632
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"