Basketball Slave: The Andy Johnson Harlem Globetrotter/NBA Story

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ISBN: 9780615173306 | 0615173306
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 2/14/2010

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Johnson relates extraordinary tales of his life with the early, original Harlem Globetrotters, and offers a wealth of historical information never disclosed about the slow, quota-based inception of African-American athletes into the NBA.

Camino del Sol Lighting a Path for Chicano/Latino Literature in the New Millennium	p. 1
Poetry
From the Other Side of Night/Del otro lado de la noche
Del otro lado de la noche/From the Other Side of Night	p. 19
Plegaria de amor/Love Plea	p. 20
¡Tlazoltéotl!	p. 21
Tlazolteotl!	p. 22
Oración del desierto/Desert Prayer	p. 23
Home Movies of Narcissus
Amateur Filmmaker	p. 24
People of the Piñata	p. 26
That Flag	p. 27
Directions to the Beach of the Dead
When I Was a Little Cuban Boy	p. 28
Translation for Mamá	p. 29
In the City of Smoking Mirrors
H. Writes to His Brother to Assure Him of Continuous Comfort in the Afterlife	p. 31
Animal Time	p. 32
El Espejo Fumeroso	p. 33
In an Angry Season
The Conjuror of the New Century	p. 34
The Tattoo Artist	p. 36
The Bad Wife	p. 38
A Rush of Hands
Shrine	p. 40
Backyard	p. 41
Nido	p. 43
Work Done Right
Chilalengua	p. 44
Club Las Palmas	p. 45
Pig	p. 46
The Tovar Bull	p. 47
A Question of Gravity and Light
To Know You Better	p. 49
This	p. 50
Letter from the Cumberland	p. 50
Epilogue	p. 51
The Keepsake Storm
Darkling	p. 51
The Walk Like Old Habits	p. 53
Where the Bodies, Half-Dressed, in Pieces	p. 54
When Living Was a Labor Camp
When living was a labor camp called Montgomery	p. 56
Softball and Tomato Fields	p. 57
Operation Wetback, 1953	p. 58
POEMA
Lyric	p. 59
At the Podium	p. 60
What Baby Gertrude Heard	p. 61
border-crosser with a lamborghini dream
blood night café	p. 63
selena in corpus christi lacquer red	p. 64
Giraffe on Fire
Ofelia in Manhattan, Circa 1943	p. 65
Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
Immigrant Fortune Teller Machine	p. 69
Fuzzy Equations	p. 74
Letanía para José Antonio Burciaga	p. 75
Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, & My Mother
Salzbergwerk: The Salt Mines Tour	p. 78
Cue Lazarus
Light Show	p. 80
A Prayer for My Brother	p. 81
Breathing Between the Lines
Discovering America	p. 82
The Devil's Workshop
Remedios	p. 85
Class Action	p. 86
World to World
Heritage	p. 87
World to World	p. 88
Bowl	p. 88
Wish	p. 89
How Long She'll Last in This World
Backcountry, Emigrant Gap	p. 91
In Biruté's Camp	p. 91
Why Can't We All Just Get Along?	p. 92
Adobe Odes
Ode to Readers	p. 96
Ode to a Book	p. 97
Ode to El Paso	p. 98
Ode to Women	p. 101
Blood Mysteries
Piñión Nuts	p. 103
Why I'm Not Someone Else	p. 105
Elegy for Desire
The Luxury of Darkness	p. 107
The Disappearance of My Wife	p. 108
Elegy for Desire	p. 108
Palm Crows
Animalia	p. 111
El exilio	p. 115
Margo Tamez
Naked Wanting
First Choice	p. 117
For Keeps	p. 118
What i'm on
dear reader: this is what i thought on easter day	p. 120
Section 7	p. 121
radio	p. 122
esau past love	p. 123
on Tuesday, when the homeless disappeared
The Deer	p. 124
El Salvador, 1932-1981	p. 128
Fiction
excerpt from The Region of Lost Names	p. 135
excerpt from Samba Dreamers	p. 146
excerpt from If I Die in Juarez	p. 159
Brides and Sinners in El Chuco
A Scenic Night	p. 178
Small Time	p. 186
Inner View	p. 193
Snapping Lines
La Luz	p. 201
Lost	p. 213
El Milagro and Other Stories
La Tortillera/The Tortilla Maker	p. 219
Amor Eterno: Eleven Lessons in Love
Amor Desesperado/Desperate Love	p. 223
The Truth about Alicia and Other Stories
The Ring	p. 228
El Bebé del Vaquerón	p. 233
excerpt from The Peruvian Notebooks	p. 235
The Last Tortilla and Other Stories
The Snake	p. 244
Punching Chickens	p. 255
Nonfiction
Of Earth and Sea: A Chilean Memoir
Words	p. 269
Violeta Parra	p. 270
November 1, The Day of the Dead	p. 271
Nights of Exile	p. 272
And Finally, Returning	p. 273
The Illusion of a Firefly	p. 273
The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing
My Week as a Mexican	p. 274
Found in Translation	p. 278
The Woman Who Loved Water	p. 283
The Underground Heart: A Return to a Hidden Landscape
The Border Is Open	p. 295
Renaming the Earth: Personal Essays
excerpts from A Different Border	p. 305
nobody's son: notes from an american life
Nobody's Son	p. 321
Source Credits	p. 335
About the Editor	p. 337
About the Contributors	p. 339
Bibliography	p. 347
Index of Authors	p. 351
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