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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9781608192595
eBay Product ID (ePID)
190009349
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Sociology of Sport
Author
Doug Merlino
Publication Name
The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
210mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
344g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Doug Merlino
Genre
Sports
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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