Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy

by Douglas Hartmann

Book Overview

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.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022637498X
• ISBN13: 9780226374987
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"