Un-Covering Stories You Never Heard Of: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s On the Shoulders of Giants and The History of (African-)American Basketball

Drawing from various disciplines from cultural history to semiology and communication studies, this article examines the part played by documentary films in the re-writing of the history of American basketball, focusing on former-player-turned-historian Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s 2011 work, On the Should...

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Main Author: Yann Descamps
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut des Amériques
Series:IdeAs
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ideas/16977

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