Indian Spectacle

College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America

Jennifer Guiliano (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

194 Seiten

2015
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-6555-2 (ISBN)

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Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K–12 schools, Americans demonstrate an expanding sensitivity to the pejorative use of references to Native Americans by sports organizations at all levels. In Indian Spectacle, Jennifer Guiliano exposes the anxiety of American middle-class masculinity in relation to the growing commercialization of collegiate sports and the indiscriminate use of Indian identity as mascots. Indian Spectacle explores the ways in which white, middle-class Americans have consumed narratives of masculinity, race, and collegiate athletics through the lens of Indian-themed athletic identities, mascots, and music. Drawing on a cross-section of American institutions of higher education, Guiliano investigates the role of sports mascots in the big business of twentieth-century American college football in order to connect mascotry to expressions of community identity, individual belonging, stereotyped imagery, and cultural hegemony. Against a backdrop of the current level of the commercialization of collegiate sports-where the collective revenue of the fifteen highest grossing teams in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has well surpassed one billion dollars-Guiliano recounts the history of the creation and spread of mascots and university identities as something bound up in the spectacle of halftime performance, the growth of collegiate competition, the influence of mass media, and how athletes, coaches, band members, spectators, university alumni, faculty, and administrators, artists, writers, and members of local communities all have contributed to the dissemination of ideas of Indianness that is rarely rooted in native people’s actual lives.

JENNIFER GUILIANO is the assistant professor of history in the School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis.

AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction 1 King Football and Gameday Spectacle 2 An Indian versus a Colonial Legend3 And the Band Played Narratives of American Expansion4 The Limitations of Halftime Spectacle5 Student Investment in University Identities6 Indian Bodies Performing Athletic IdentityConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Reihe/Serie	Critical Issues in Sport and Society
Zusatzinfo	13 photographs
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-8135-6555-3 / 0813565553
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-6555-2 / 9780813565552
Zustand	Neuware