<div> The National Basketball Association is a place where white fans and black players enact virtually every racial issue and tension in U.S. 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. </div> <div> &nbsp; </div> <div> Critically acclaimed and highly controversial, <i>Black Planet</i> 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 <i>Esquire</i>, <i>Newsday</i>, <i>Los Angeles Weekly</i>, and Amazon.com. </div>