{"id":1664,"date":"2012-06-04T20:40:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T20:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=1664"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:42:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:42:31","slug":"after-artest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2012\/06\/04\/after-artest\/","title":{"rendered":"After Artest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>David J. Leonard, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/p-5321-after-artest.aspx\"><em>After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2012<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Metta World Peace and his Lakers are out of the running now, but with the NBA playoffs in full swing it&#8217;s a great time to take a look at this recent book from one of the leaders in sport sociology. Leonard uses Artest and the infamous melee in Motown as a meditation on how the league goes about the business of packaging and controlling its African American superstars, how we participate in the process, and what it all says about race in contemporary American culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David J. Leonard, After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness, 2012 Metta World Peace and his Lakers are out of the running now, but with the NBA playoffs in full swing it&#8217;s a great time to take a look at this recent book from one of the leaders in sport sociology. Leonard uses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,14],"tags":[403,37333,50],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-race","tag-deviance","tag-race","tag-sport"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8336,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/8336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}