End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game

Nathan Kalman-Lamb,Derek Silva

ISBN 10: 1469683466 / ISBN 13: 9781469683461

Edité par University of North Carolina Press November 2024, 2024

N° de réf. du vendeur 71808

Synopsis :

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.

À propos des auteurs: Nathan Kalman-Lamb is assistant professor of sociology at University of New Brunswick and the author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport.

Derek Silva is associate professor of sociology at University of King's College and is the coauthor of Power Played: A Critical Criminology of Sport.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : End of College Football: On the Human Cost ...
Éditeur : University of North Carolina Press November 2024
Date d'édition : 2024
Reliure : Trade Paperback
Etat : New