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Summary:

"Special Admission contradicts the national belief that college sports provide upward mobility opportunities. Kirsten Hextrum documents how white middle-class youth become overrepresented on college teams. Her institutional ethnography of one elite athletic and academic institution includes over 100 hours of interviews with college rowers and track & field athletes. She charts the historic and contemporary relationships between colleges, athletics, and white middle-class communities that ensure white suburban youth are advantaged in special athletic admissions. Suburban youth start ahead in college admissions because athletic merit-the competencies desired by university recruiters-requires access to vast familial, communal, and economic resources, all of which are concentrated in their neighborhoods. Their advantages increase as youth, parents, and coaches strategically invest in and engineer novel opportunities to maintain their race and class status. Thus, college sports allow white, middle-class athletes to accelerate their racial and economic advantages through admission to elite universities"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Gentlemen's agreement : college sports become a state institution
• The state alignment : white suburbia and athletic talent
• Build a wall : the state segregates sports
• Activating capital : pay-to-play sports
• A guide : socializing future college athletes
• The offer letter : athletic talent secures preferential college access
• Conclusion : altering the path.

Author/Creator:

Hextrum, Kirsten , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Special admission: how college sports recruitment favors white, suburban athletes [by Hextrum, K.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Special admission [by Hextrum, K.] (New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2021 — ISBN 9781978821200; LCCN 2020053770)

Related Series:

The American campus

Subjects:

College athletes — Recruiting — United States

College sports — Corrupt practices — United States

Discrimination in higher education — United States

Universities and colleges — Admission — Corrupt practices — United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

GV350.5 .H48 2021eb

ISBNs:

9781978821248 (electronic bk.)
1978821247 (electronic bk.)
9781978821200 [Invalid]
1978821204 [Invalid]
9781978821217 [Invalid]
1978821212 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1255416558

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6630693 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp17278569