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Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football Volume 19

Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football Volume 19

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Series: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century

AnthropologyFootballSports General

ISBN10: 0520395654
ISBN13: 9780520395657
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Feb 25 2025
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A Black feminist take on exploitation and care in America's favorite game.

Big-time college football promises prestige, drama, media attention, and money. Yet most athletes in this unpaid, amateur system encounter a different reality, facing dangerous injuries, few pro-career opportunities, a free but devalued college education, and future financial instability. In one of the first ethnographies about Black college football players, anthropologist Tracie Canada reveals the ways young athletes strategically resist the exploitative systems that structure their everyday lives.

Tackling the Everyday shows how college football particularly harms the young Black men who are overrepresented on gridirons across the country. Although coaches and universities constantly invoke the misleading football family narrative, this book describes how a brotherhood among Black players operates alongside their caring mothers, who support them on and off the field. With a Black feminist approach--one that highlights often-overlooked voices--Canada exposes how race, gender, kinship, and care shape the lives of the young athletes who shoulder America's favorite game.

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