Tackling the Everyday

Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-520-39565-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 256 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

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

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Canada, Tracie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Ballsportarten American Football Fußball
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Tracie Canada is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her work has been featured in public venues and outlets such as the Museum of Modern Art, The Guardian, and Scientific American.