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Midnight Basketball - Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy (Paperback)
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Midnight Basketball - Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy (Paperback)
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Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the
City of Big Shoulders home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls is where
it first came to national prominence. And it's also where Douglas
Hartmann first began to think seriously about the audacious notion
that organizing young men to run around in the wee hours of the
night all trying to throw a leather ball through a metal hoop could
constitute meaningful social policy. Organized in the 1980s and
'90s by dozens of American cities, late-night basketball leagues
were designed for social intervention, risk reduction, and crime
prevention targeted at African American youth and young men. In
Midnight Basketball, Hartmann traces the history of the program and
the policy transformations of the period, while exploring the
racial ideologies, cultural tensions, and institutional realities
that shaped the entire field of sports-based social policy. Drawing
on extensive fieldwork, the book also brings to life the actual,
on-the-ground practices of midnight basketball programs and the
young men that the programs intended to serve. In the process,
Midnight Basketball offers a more grounded and nuanced
understanding of the intricate ways sports, race, and risk
intersect and interact in urban America.
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