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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A very readable combination of sports memoir and exploration of racial/class differences in Seattle. It was interesting to read in at the same time as The Warmth of Other Suns. ( ) Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I put off reading this book longer than I should have -- I've worked and lived in the Bronx all my adult lives, and this book absolutely rings true. I found this well written, and interesting Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I’m a bit unsure how to approach reviewing this book. Framed as the story of a mixed race youth basketball team formed in 1980s Seattle, the book speaks more about race relations in general, the fractious neighborhoods in post-segregation America, and how this affects our lives. Merlino, after reading about the murder of one of his teammates, sets out to track down all the members of the team and see what has happened in their lives. The white students, all of the most prestigious private school in Seattle, are very successful, while the black students range from somewhat successful to almost without hope. While the story is interesting, it is also unsurprising. These are the things we see and live every day – a team of demographic statistics – which makes for a pretty depressing read. Merlino doesn’t try to offer any easy answers, or even suggest that the team changed their lives in any large way. But at the same time, he does think that it was meaningful and ultimately a good thing. I suppose that’s why I find myself so conflicted. The book is well written, and entertaining, but I don’t feel like I came to any conclusions or learned anything I didn’t already know. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. In The Hustle, author Doug Merlino is spurred to take a sentimental journey back to visit members of an interracial basketball team he participated on. Privileged white kids from a prep school and underprivileged black kids from the projects were put in this "social experiment" Some of the motivation was simply that the coach wanted the underprivileged kids to have a chance to play at the schools and tournaments that they couldn't afford. Doug's wonder about what happened to his old teammates was precipitated by finding a newspaper article about one of the players having been killed, partially dismembered, and dumped in a ditch. Doug finds that many of the players dealt with a lot of the same issues, racial and otherwise, often coming at them from different angles. He clearly spends a lot of time researching environment vs. evolution and devotes much space to giving the reader the background of the culture, economics, and location. The Hustle is set in and around Seattle during the late 1980s and early 1990s. What results is a readable and interesting look at a teeny tiny case study of socio economic factors. Doug's voice is inquisitive and alternatively that of a college professor lecturing the class. At points he gets to the heart of the matter and engages the reader, and at others he rambles to himself. However, overall, this book was interesting, but rambles a bit. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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 - famous for alums such as Microsoft's Bill Gates - and black kids from the inner city on a basketball team? Wouldn't exposure to privilege give the black kids a chance at better opportunities? Wouldn't it open the eyes of the white kids to a different side of life? The 1986 season would be the laboratory. Out in the real world, hip-hop was going mainstream, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson ruled the NBA, and Ronald Reagan was president. In Seattle, the team's season unfolded like a perfectly scripted sports movie- the ragtag group of boys became friends and 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. His search ranges from a prison cell to a hedge fund office, street corners to a shack in rural Oregon, a Pentecostal church to the records of a brutal murder. The result is a complex, gripping, and, at times, unsettling story. An instant classic in the vein of Michael Apted's Up series, 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. A tale both personal and public, The Hustle is the story a disparate group of men finding - or not finding - a place in America. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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