Give and Go: Basketball as a Cultural Practice

by Thomas Mc Laughlin

A pickup basketball player looks at the pickup game as a distinctive culture using both personal experience and cultural studies theory.

258 pages, Hardcover

First published March 6, 2008

Reviews

[Josh · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's much more to be said about the ethics of basketball than I would have thought. McLaughlin thinks through many things I have considered subconsciously while running down the court, and more.

Tom McLaughlin teaches at Appalachian State, where my father taught, and is an acquaintance of ours.

[Ethanganot · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too academic. Repeated the same stuff over and over again. On the plus side, a nice review of basketball-themed movies including White Men Can't Jump