Wheelchair Warrior: Gangs, Disability, and Basketball (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781592134748)

Melvin Juette has said that becoming paralyzed in a gang-related shooting was OC both the worst and best thing that happenedOCO to him. The incident, he believes, surely spared the then sixteen year-old African American from prison and/or an early death. It transformed him in other ways, too. He attended college and made wheelchair basketball his passionOCoultimately becoming a star athlete and playing on the U.S. National Wheelchair Basketball Team.

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In "Wheelchair Warrior, "Juette reconstructs the defining moments of his life with the assistance of sociologist Ronald Berger. His poignant memoir is bracketed by BergerOCOs thoughtful introduction and conclusion, which places this narrative of race, class, masculinity and identity into proper sociological context, showing how larger social structural forces defined his experiences. While JuetteOCOs story never gives into despair, it does challenge the idea of the OC supercrip.OCO"

Author: Melvin Juette, Ronald J. Berger
ISBN-10: 1592134742
ISBN-13: 9781592134748
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2008
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.54w x 0.67d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2008 pg. 98
Booklist 03/01/2008 pg. 43
Choice 04/01/2009