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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.
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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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2016Print ISBN
9780226374987, 9780226374840eBook ISBN
9780226375038Index
after-school recreation programs, 41–42, 106–7, 135–37, 166
Aid to Families with Dependent Children, 124
Alford, Robert, 215
Allen, Ray, 192
“Alternative, The” (midnight basketball motto), 43, 226n10
American Indian Center, 164, 172, 183, 185
American Sociological Association, 146, 220
American Youth Soccer Organization, 25
Anderson, Elijah, 32–33, 227n15
Andrews, David, 3, 9, 20–26, 35, 43, 125, 134, 224, 226n7, 229n15
apolitical, sports as, 14, 73, 119–20, 201–2
Atkins, Brad, 155, 159, 176–77
“at-risk” youth, 20–22, 29–35, 42–43, 46–47, 61–64, 68–69, 207–8, 227n16
Australia, 137–42
Axthelm, Pete, 35
Beck, Ulrich, 34
Becker, Howard, 214
Bell, Joyce, 15
Belton, Sharon Sayles, 46, 71–72
Bennett, William, 172
Bentham, Jeremy, 86
Bhaskar, Roy, 223
Bias, Len, 4–5
blackness and basketball, 4–5, 29–36, 54, 141–42, 157–58, 161–62, 192–94
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 36
boot camps, 41, 134, 142
Bourdieu, Pierre, 8, 194, 214, 217
Boyd, Todd, 35
Boys and Girls Clubs, 20, 42, 52, 54, 61, 115
Brooks, Scott, 18, 52, 187
Brown, Hana, 116
Burawoy, Michael, 216
Bush, George H. W., 2, 19, 29, 40, 56, 65, 72, 75–76, 89–90, 100, 114, 172, 200–201; Points of...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- One / Introduction: At the Intersection of Sports, Race, and Risk
- Two / The Midnight Innovation
- Three / An Unlikely and Revealing Consensus
- Four / A Commercial for Neoliberal Social Policy
- Five / Breakdown and Fallout: The Symbolic Politics of the 1994 Crime Bill
- Six / Remodeling Sport-Based Prevention
- Seven / Prevention in Practice: A Field Study (with Darren Wheelock)
- Eight / They Got Game: Lessons and Reflections from the Bottom Up
- Nine / Conclusion: In the Light of Midnight
- Methodological Appendix: The Notion of an Emergent Case Study
- Notes
- References
- Index