Summary Of Pick Up Basketball

As the book aims to decode the everyday practices of South Asian American masculinity, each chapter details one segment and experience of sport and leisure. The commitment young South Asian American men have to it demonstrates key elements of social formation and co-ethnic intimacy in a large multi-racial city of Atlanta. Pick-up basketball presents one way to provide different and differential claims to the city. Through intentionally organizing pick-up basketball games, South Asian American basketball players create opportunities to enjoy co-ethnic socializing while putting into place this alternate time and space outside of their busy work and family lives. We see in this chapter the formation of the team Atlanta Outcasts, their early basketball