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Summary:

"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"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• "I love Saturdays" : organizing the team
• "I'm an X in their playbook" : concern for individuals
• "I do it for them" : bonds of brotherhood
• "The year my mom was born" : care from mothers
• "The son that gets a lot of whoopings" : joking through violence
• Coda.

Author/Creator:

Canada, Tracie , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Tackling the everyday: race and nation in big-time college football [by Canada, T.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Tackling the everyday [by Canada, T.] (Oakland : University of California Press, [2025] — ISBN 9780520395640; LCCN 2024033081)

Related Series:

Atelier (University of California Press); [volume] 19

Subjects:

African American football players — United States — Social conditions

College sports — Social aspects — United States

Racism in sports — United States

Football injuries

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

GV951 .C363 2025eb

ISBNs:

9780520395664 (ebook)
0520395662
9780520395640 (cloth) [Invalid]
9780520395657 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024033082

OCLC Numbers:

1454586146