RELIGST 2EE3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cardinal Direction, Hoop Dreams, Arthur Agee
2 Nov 2017
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Grew up in a poor african american neighbourhood in boston. He was exposed to poverty, violence, intimidation by gangs, exposure to drug trade, primarily because there aren"t other economic opportunities besides the drug trade. Lots of young black men died before their time because of gun violence, police violence, accidents. He was recruited to yale and was voted one of the top 10 players and led the yale team to scoring. He ended up quitting the time to focus on studies. White players belonged to a fraternity that none of the black guys belonged to. He felt compared to these street basketballs, yale basketball lacked passion. It"s wealthy white academic institutions who rely on black athletes. Study of street basketball in boston neighbourhoods. Argues that it"s impossible to do scholarly work if you don"t care about your subject and you don"t realize you"re always studying yourself.
