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The experiment was dreamed up by two fathers, one white, one black. What would happen, they wondered, if they mixed white players from an elite Seattle private school and black kids from the inner city on a basketball team? The team's season unfolded like a perfectly scripted sports movie: The ragtag group of boys gelled together to win the league championship. The experiment was deemed a success.
But was it? How did crossing lines of class, race, and wealth affect the lives of these ten boys? Two decades later, Doug Merlino, who played on the team, returned to find his teammates. The result is a complex, gripping, and at times unsettling story. An instant classic of narrative nonfiction, The Hustle tells the stories of ten teammates set before a background of sweeping social and economic change, capturing the ways race, money, and opportunity shape our lives.
| The Season | p. 1 |
| One for All | p. 3 |
| Black Seattle/White Seattle | p. 13 |
| You'll All Work for Us Someday | p. 36 |
| More Than Just Running Up and Down the Floor | p. 52 |
| Welfare Queens, the Huxtables, and Unlikely Champions | p. 70 |
| Transitions | p. 83 |
| Moving On | p. 85 |
| Money, Work, Career | p. 109 |
| Strictly for the Money | p. 111 |
| Boom, Bust | p. 130 |
| Gentrified | p. 146 |
| Saved | p. 155 |
| The System | p. 171 |
| Schools | p. 189 |
| Our Kids Are Not Getting What They Need | p. 191 |
| Between Two Worlds | p. 208 |
| Lakeside Revisited | p. 222 |
| Structure and Manhood | p. 251 |
| What It Means to Be a Man | p. 253 |
| Play Hard and Keep it Clean | p. 270 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 293 |
| Notes on the Sources | p. 295 |
| Index | p. 298 |
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ISBN: 9781608192595
ISBN-10: 1608192598
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 308
Published: 12th April 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions (cm): 20.8 x 14.4
x 2.1
Weight (kg): 0.29
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