Never ran, never will boyhood and football in a changing American inner city
Never Ran, Never Will tells the story of the working-class, mostly black neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn; its proud youth football team, the Mo Better Jaguars; and the young boys who are often at the center of both. Oomz, Gio, Hart, and their charismatic, vulnerable friends, come together on a...
| Main Author: | Samaha, Albert (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Boyhood
- Gio's arrival, July 2013
- Looking for these better days, August 2013
- Directed toward decay, September 2013
- The fundamentals of life, September-November 2013
- Crossroads, January 2014
- Pressure chamber, March-April 2014
- Between saviors and a dead end, April 2014
- What's best for Isaiah, May 2014
- Goodbyes, June 2014
- Part II. Football
- The days and nights of summer, June-July 2014
- On the horizon, July-August 2014
- Hell week, August, 2014
- Stop dancin' and run somebody over, August-September 2014
- What they've been waiting for, early to mid-September 2014
- East Orange, mid-September 2014
- To make it in the jungle, late September, 2014
- Brick City, late September 2014
- None of y'all gon' die tonight, mid to late October 2014
- The rematch, late October 2014
- Blessings, December 2017.