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'The Tomorrow Game' is Sudhir Venkatesh's chronicle of violence in South Side Chicago
'The Tomorrow Game' is Sudhir Venkatesh's chronicle of violence in South Side Chicago
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Length:
8 minutes
Released:
Jul 5, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
In Sudhir Venkatesh's The Tomorrow Game, two teenagers on Chicago's South Side face each other in a story that conveys the pressures and motivations boys face when buying guns. Venkatesh, a professor of sociology and African American studies at Columbia University, tells a true story (with names changed to protect privacy). In an interview with Weekend Edition Saturday, Venkatesh tells Susan Davis about the systemic and cultural challenges that kids face in poor neighborhoods, and says that if we want to solve the problem of gun violence, we must include them in the conversation.
Released:
Jul 5, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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