Child Boss

"Set between 2002 and 2007, Child Boss opens with a young boy who wants to ball. Stripped of ornament and abstraction, what follows is a wide-ranging probe of how normative social and cultural rituals of domination-and their entangled systems-are nourished, reproduced, and subverted. Through surgical humor and an unflinching mind, the narrative moves from the formation of boyhood through the corrupting psychology of free markets to friendship, exploitation, criminality, punishment, debt and predatory lending, pleasure and happiness, labor precarity, wealth inequality, proportionality, and myth making"--