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In this episode, I talk to University of Minnesota Professor and Editor-In-Chief of TheSocietyPages Douglas Hartmann [1] about his book Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy [2]. This conversation focuses on a 1990s crime initiative, known as midnight basketball [3], which aimed to curb crime by setting up late night basketball leagues in inner cities. While initially popular with democrats and republicans , including president George H. W. Bush, the program would eventually fall, being attacked by right-wing politicians and radio hosts alike, but it left behind a complex history with many implications for sports, race, and social policy today.
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[1] https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/hartm021
[2] http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo23670359.html
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_basketball
[4] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH126_Hartmann.mp3
Office Hours
Conversations with top social scientists about their research and the social world. Produced by The Society Pages.
