SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index.
Posting up: introductory notes on race, sports, and post-America -- White out: erasures of race in college athletics -- "Kill the Indians, save the chief": Native American mascots and imperial identities -- Sammy Seminole, Jim Crow, and Osceola: playing Indian and racial hierarchy at Florida State University -- Body and soul: physicality, disciplinarity, and the overdetermination of blackness -- Of rebels and leprechauns: longing, passing, and the staging of whiteness -- Postcolonial arenas: the dis-ease of desire in America.
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"Focusing on half-time performances, commercialized stagings, media coverage, public panics, and political protests. Beyond the Cheers offers an ethnography history and social critique of racial spectacles in college sport. King and Springwood argue that collegiate revenue producing sports are created as a spectacle, driven by a range of contradictory meanings and exploitative practices. While Native Americans are viewed largely as empty or distorted images and African Americans are seen as both shining stars and 'troubled delinquents, ' White Americans remain constant as spectators, coaches, administrators journalists, and athletes, producing and consuming college sport, performing and policing but seemingly unmarked as racial subjects. In consuming these spectacles. American sports fans learn to embrace inflated, contradictory, and distorted renderings of racial difference and the history of race relations in America."--Jacket.
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