Reviewed by Gena Caponi-Tabery | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 28.3

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Living through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream. By Reuben A. Buford May. New York: New York University Press, 2008. xvii + 243 pp. Notes, bibliography, appendix, and index. $29.95 (cloth).

As the most popular participatory team sport among American high schoolers and the second most popular spectator sport in the country, basketball has a profound impact on American youth, particularly on poor, urban, African American youth who may have limited exposure to positive examples of male success beyond sports. The Oscar-nominated film Hoop Dreams (1994) dramatized the uphill battle that high achievement in basketball represents. Rick Telander's Heaven Is a Playground (1976), Darcy Frey's The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams (1994), and Madeleine Blais's In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle (1995) also have chronicled the world of aspiring high school players who have met with varying degrees of success and with much disappointment.

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