‘The Tomorrow Game’ draws on hope in the face of Chicago’s gun violence
Sudhir Venkatesh’s new book follows two rival teens on Chicago’s South Side and a community that’s trying to save them from gun violence.
By Stephanie Kim
‘The Tomorrow Game’ draws on hope in the face of Chicago’s gun violence
Sudhir Venkatesh’s new book follows two rival teens on Chicago’s South Side and a community that’s trying to save them from gun violence.
By Stephanie Kim
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What drives teenagers to buy a gun and see it as a legitimate way to solve a problem? And how can the people around them help break this cycle of violence? Those are questions sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh explores in his new book The Tomorrow Game.
Reset learns more about his latest work and his decadeslong research on gun violence in Chicago.
GUEST: Sudhir Venkatesh, author of The Tomorrow Game; professor of sociology and African American studies at Columbia University