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David J. Leonard discusses race, sports, and his new book "After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness" with LARB Audio Editor Oliver Wang.
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Oliver Wang is a professor of sociology at CSU Long Beach and the author of Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area (2015) and Cruising J-Town: Japanese American Car Culture in Los Angeles (2025).