Tackling the Everyday (eBook)

Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football

Tracie Canada (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
256 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39566-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

Contents

Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

1. “I Love Saturdays”: Organizing the Team 
2. “I’m an X in Their Playbook”: Concern for Individuals 
3. “I Do It for Them”: Bonds of Brotherhood 
4. “The Year My Mom Was Born”: Care from Mothers 
5. “The Son That Gets a Lot of Whoopings”: Joking through Violence 
Coda 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.2.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American athletes • African American Studies • American Studies • Anthropology • Black exploitation in sports • Care • Ethnographic study of Black athletes • Gender • Kinship and care in athletics • Race and kinship in college football • racial dynamics • Sports studies and race • Survival • Survival in American football
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39566-2 / 0520395662
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39566-4 / 9780520395664