My Los Angeles in Black & (almost) White /

Growing Up In Los Angeles in me 1970's and 1980's, roughly half of Furman's high school basketball teammates lived in the largely Anglo, and increasingly Jewish, San Fernando Valley, while the other half were African American students bused in from the inner city. Los Angeles was embr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Furman, Andrew, 1968-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Sports and entertainment.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1j2n9tf
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Photograph
  • Valley Boy
  • Integration Efforts and Agonies
  • The Blacks and the Jews
  • Contact
  • Training
  • The Valley Revisited, via Santa Monica
  • Game Time
  • Coach
  • The â€?Hood, via Sherman Oaks
  • Return
  • Giving Up the Game
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index