New Jack Jocks: Rebels,Race,and the American Athlete

In this erudite and captivating book, bestselling author Larry Platt takes us on a tour through American sports. Offering profiles of the athletes we love (and love to hate), Platt shows that sport, more than any other nationwide pastime, is the way we come to understand—and alter—race relations, gender, and, most profoundly, how we communicate with each other in ways that are often given too little credit in the minds of intellectuals. Thought provoking and richly written, offers a textured picture of how athletes live their lives and how we live out and define American culture by the way we come to understand their lives in and out of the halls of play. Author Biography: is an editor-at-large for magazine. His work has been published in , , and many other publications. The author of , he lives in the Philadelphia area.