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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Book of James: The Power, Politics, and Passion of Lebron

The Book of James: The Power, Politics, and Passion of Lebron

Babb, Valerie

Hardcover

AthletesBasketballBlack American Studies

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 1541702042
ISBN13: 9781541702042
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: Nov 28 2023
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
The unique social, cultural, and political life of the incomparable LeBron James

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's the poor boy from a broken home who makes good. He's also the poor Black boy from a broken home who makes good, then at the apex of his career finds n***** spray-painted across the gate to his home.

James has lived in the public eye ever since high school when his extraordinary athletic skills subjected his every action, every statement, every fashion choice to intense public scrutiny that tells us less about James himself and more about a nation still wrestling with many social inequities. 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.

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