Hoop dreams on wheels disability and the competitive wheelchair athlete /

• Main Author: Berger, Ronald J.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Contemporary sociological perspectives series.
• Subjects: Wheelchair basketball > United States.; Sports for people with disabilities.; Athletes with disabilities > Biography.; People with disabilities > Biography. > United States; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Sports.; SPORTS & RECREATION > Basketball.; Electronic books.
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Presents the life histories of the players that help students develop their sociological imagination, that is, an understanding of the interrelationship between biography and history in society and the ways in which personal troubles are related to public issues.

Table of Contents:

• Disability in society
• Disability, sports, and basketball
• A case study of competitive wheelchair athletics
• The first generation
• The second generation
• The third generation
• The fourth generation
• Living with disabilities : pathways to wheelchair sports
• Competitive sports and the dilemmas of disability identity.