Hoops : a cultural history of basketball in America

Aiello, Thomas 1977- (author.).

Summary: "From its nineteenth-century roots to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. This book presents the first cultural history of the sport from the street to the highest levels of professional men's and women's competition, chronicling the relationship between the sport and American society"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781538147115
ISBN: 1538147114
ISBN: 9781538148563
Physical Description: print
xii, 289 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-270) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue -- Muscular Christianity -- Professionalizing the amateur game -- The Negro leagues -- Early collegiate basketball -- The growth of the women's game -- Mid-century scandal -- The birth of the NBA -- Integration -- Race and civil rights -- The ABA and the merger -- Magic and Larry -- The Jordan rules -- College basketball at the millennium -- The rise of women's basketball -- The NBA in the twenty-first century -- Epilogue.