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Summary:

"In this book, Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential challenge to one of America's favorite pastimes: college football. Drawing on twenty-five in-depth interviews with former players at some of the country's most prominent college football schools, Kalman-Lamb and Silva explore how football is both predicated on a foundation of coercion and suffused with racialized harm and exploitation. Through the stories of those who lived it, the authors examine the ways in which college football must be understood as a site of harm, revealing how players are systematically denied the economic value they produce for universities and offered only a devalued education in return. By illuminating the plantation dynamics that make this a particularly racialized form of exploitation, the book makes legible the forms of physical sacrifice that are required, the ultimate cost in health and well-being, and the coercion that drives players into the sport and compels them to endure such abusive conditions."-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Exploitation and harm in the ivory tower and on the gridiron
• "Play"-ing college football
• Failure to educate
• Beyond compensation
• Plantation dynamics: racial capitalism through college football
• They signed up for it: coercion and consent in college football
• The normalization of college football during a global pandemic
• Cancel college football.

Author/Creator:

Kalman-Lamb, Nathan, 1983- , author

Contributors:

Silva, Derek M. D. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The end of college football: on the human cost of an all-American game [by Kalman-Lamb, N.]

Subjects:

Football — Economic aspects — United States

Football — Social aspects — United States

College athletes — United States

Exploitation

College sports — United States — Management

United States — Race relations

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

GV956.4 .K35 2024eb

ISBNs:

9781469683508 (electronic bk.)
1469683504 (electronic bk.)
9781469683454 [Invalid]
1469683458 [Invalid]
9781469683461 [Invalid]
1469683466 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1462059377

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31253440 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp306700399