Black Planet

Facing Race during an NBA Season

By: David Shields

Narrated by: Donald Elivert

The National Basketball Association is a place where white fans and Black players enact virtually every racial issue and tension in US culture. Following the Seattle SuperSonics for an entire season, David Shields explores how, in a predominantly Black sport, White fans - including especially himself - think about and talk about Black heroes, Black scapegoats, and Black bodies. Critically acclaimed and highly controversial, Black Planet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN USA Award, and was named one of the Top Ten Nonfiction Books of 1999 by Esquire, Newsday, Los Angeles Weekly, and Amazon.com.

©1999 David Shields (P)2019 David Shields

great performance

content was a little outside of my usual but the narration was great. I look forward to heating more from Donald Elivert.

If you like the NBA

This book is highly entertaining. The way it is narrated is engaging, there were many moments where I laughed out loud and told these stories to many other NBA fans and they are now listening to the book too. The original author and his view of race and the NBA is amazing. You will not get books written like this anymore when everyone is so PC now, this book is raw, entertaining and every bit worth your time. Especially if you liked the Sonics.