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Volume 25, Issue 2

June 2021

Special Issue: Kobe Bean Bryant as Icon

Issue Editors:

Jerrell Beckham,
Judson L. Jeffries

17 articles in this issue

A 6′6″ Guard from Lower Merion High School . . . .
Judson L. Jeffries
Jerrell Beckham
INTRODUCTION 14 June 2021 Pages: 163 - 165
Kobe: Guardian of an American Cultural Institution
John Thomas Mills
DeMond Shondell Miller
OriginalPaper 06 July 2021 Pages: 166 - 178
Global Sign, Shared Meaning? Kobe Bryant’s Life and Its Representation from the USA to France
Yann Descamps
ARTICLES 03 July 2021 Pages: 179 - 207
Remembering Kobe Bryant as a Girl Dad: Race, Gender, and Reputation Repair
Brandon Alston
ARTICLES 05 July 2021 Pages: 208 - 229
Kobe Bryant: Consent and the Carceral Shadow of a Life Incomplete
Townsand Price-Spratlen
ARTICLES 02 July 2021 Pages: 230 - 246
“I’d Rather Be with Them Than Doing Anything Else”: Kobe Bryant’s Status as the MVP of Girl’s Dads
Cassandra D. Chaney
ARTICLES 05 July 2021 Pages: 247 - 264
Kobe Bryant’s Second Act: a Brief but Beautiful Post-basketball Life
David K. Wiggins
ARTICLES 22 June 2021 Pages: 265 - 284
Kobe Bryant: a Theoretical Approach to Understanding the Personal and Professional Life Trajectory of an Elite African American Athlete
Kimberly R. Outlaw
Mary S. Jackson
ARTICLES 16 June 2021 Pages: 285 - 297
Who Says Shut Up and Dribble? Race and the Response to Athletes’ Political Activism
David Niven
ARTICLES 05 June 2021 Pages: 298 - 311
Unfinished Legacy: Kobe Bryant and His Support of Women’s Basketball
Chris Hanna
James T. Morton
ARTICLES 25 May 2021 Pages: 312 - 323
Religion in the Life of Kobe Bryant
Michał Mazurkiewicz
ARTICLES Open access 28 June 2021 Pages: 324 - 338
The Life and Legacy of Kobe Bryant: Reflections from Cal Poly Pomona
Renford Reese
REFLECTIONS 28 June 2021 Pages: 339 - 352
Andre Iguodala (2019). The Sixth Man: a Memoir. New York: Blue Rider Press. 256 pp. ISBN 9,780,525,533,986
Sarah Beth Dunn
BOOK REVIEW 25 May 2021 Pages: 353 - 355
John Thompson: I Came as a Shadow: an Autobiography. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020. 352 pp. ISBN 978–1250619358
Christina Longo
BOOK REVIEW 25 May 2021 Pages: 356 - 358
Howard Bryant. 2019. The Heritage: Black Athletes, A Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism. Boston: Beacon Press. 288 pp. ISBN: 978–0.907.038.086
Joey Miller
BOOK REVIEW 25 May 2021 Pages: 359 - 361
Deborah Draper, Blair Underwood, and Travis Thrasher. (2020). Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. New York: Atria Books. 320 pp. ISBN 9781501162152
Lauren Griffin
BOOK REVIEW 25 May 2021 Pages: 362 - 363
Cat M. Ariail. Passing the Baton: Black Women Track Stars and American Identity. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2020. 248 pp. ISBN 9780252085383
Matthew Roediger
BOOK REVIEW 31 May 2021 Pages: 364 - 366