And not just "white men," but *Jewish men* in particular.https://twitter.com/cminmd/status/764091665187344384 …
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This is how people tended to explain the pre-war dominance of Jewish basketball players:pic.twitter.com/fgxatDqnFM
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...which is to say that their explanations mapped onto some widely held, janky ideas abt Jewish ppl that were already out there in the world
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but the reasons Jewish players dominated hoops were largely sociological: lived in inner-cities + the game had enormous cultural pull.
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"It was absolutely a way out of the ghetto."pic.twitter.com/wTibN2Yj6O
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There are a lot of reasons why the demographics of basketball changed. But a big, big one: The Great Migration.
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basketball was a hood game, and when the complexion of the hood literally changed, so did the game.
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there's this map of where (American-born) NBA players come from that i've been trying to find for a minute. But basically...
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this is gonna be relevant: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/opinion/sunday/in-the-nba-zip-code-matters.html?_r=0 … black ppl more likely to make the league (duh), w/income layered atop
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