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03219aim a2200457Mi 4500 001 66941072E23911EC9D80461122ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220602010055 006 m eq h 007 sz zunznnnzneu 007 cs nza|||||||| 008 220225s2022 ohunnnneq n eng d 020 $a 1669639924 020 $a 9781669639923 (playaway) 028 02 $a 43469 $b Findaway World 035 $a (OCoLC)1299341998 040 $a PLAYA $b eng $e rda $c PLAYA $d OCLCO $d PLAYA $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 14 $a GV887.3 $b .W66 2022d 082 04 $a 796.3238 $2 23 100 1 $a Woodbine, Onaje X. O., $e author. 245 10 $a Black gods of the asphalt / $c Onaje X. O. Woodbine. 260 $a Solon, Ohio : $b Findaway World, LLC, $c [2022] 300 $a 1 audio media player : $b digital, HD audio ; $c 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. 500 $a Release date supplied by publisher. 500 $a Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. 500 $a One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening. 511 0 $a Read by Mirron Willis. 520 $a "J-Rod moves like a small tank on the court, his face mean, staring down his opponents. 'I play just like my father,' he says. 'Before my father died, he was a problem on the court. I'm a problem.' Playing basketball for him fuses past and present, conjuring his father's memory into a force that opponents can feel in each bone-snapping drive to the basket. On the street, every ballplayer has a story. Onaje X. O. Woodbine, a former streetball player who became an all-star Ivy Leaguer, brings the sights and sounds, hopes and dreams of street basketball to life. He shows that big games have a trickster figure and a master of Black talk whose commentary interprets the game for audiences. The beats of hip-hop and reggae make up the soundtrack, and the ballplayers are half men, half heroes, defying the ghetto's limitations with their flights to the basket. Basketball is popular among young Black American men, but not because, as many claim, they are 'pushed by poverty' or 'pulled' by White institutions to play it. Black men choose to participate in basketball because of the transcendent experience of the game. Through interviews with and observations of urban basketball players, Onaje X. O. Woodbine composes a rare portrait of a passionate, committed, and resilient group of athletes who use the court to mine what urban life cannot corrupt. If people turn to religion to reimagine their place in the world, then Black streetball players are indeed the hierophants of the asphalt."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Streetball $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Basketball $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a African American basketball players $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a African American young men $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Urban youth $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Hip-hop $z United States. 655 7 $a Audiobooks. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Willis, Mirron, $e narrator 710 2 $a Playaway Digital Audio. 710 2 $a Findaway World, LLC. 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220602011230.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=66941072E23911EC9D80461122ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search