Beyond the Cheers

Charles Fruehling Springwood, C. Richard King

Description

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.
Acknowledgments

1. Posting Up: Introductory Notes on Race, Sports, and Post-America

2. White Out: Erasures of Race in College Athletics

3 “Kill the Indians, Save the Chief”: Native American Mascots and Imperial Identities

4. Sammy Seminole, Jim Crow, and Osceola: Playing Indian and Racial Hierarchy at Florida State University

5. Body and Soul: Physicality, Disciplinarity, and the Overdetermination of Blackness

6. Of Rebels and Leprechauns: Longing, Passing, and the Stagings of Whiteness

7. Postcolonial Arenas: The Dis-Ease of Desire in America

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Sujets

• Sport
• Autres sports
• Sports science
• Physical education

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 31 mai 2001
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791490402
• Langue: English

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Beyond the Cheers

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SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations

Cheryl L. Cole and Michael A. Messner, Editors

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Beyond the Cheers

Race as Spectacle in College Sport

C. Richard King and Charles Fruehling Springwood

State University of New York Press

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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

© 2001 State University of New York

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

King, C. Richard, 1968– Beyond the cheers : race as spectacle in college sport / C. Richard King and Charles Fruehling Springwood. p. cm.—(SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-5005-8 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0-7914-5006-6 (pkb. : alk. paper) 1. Discrimination in sports—United States. 2. College sports—United States. I. Springwood, Chalres Fruehling. II. Title. III. Series.

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We dedicate this book to our children, Abigail and Ellory Gilliland-King and Jacob and Josua Springwood, with the hope that their future will be more just, equitable, and enlightened.

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Contents

Acknowledgmentsix 1 Posting Up: Introductory Notes on Race, Sports, and Post-America 1 2 White Out: Erasures of Race in Collegiate Athletics 17 3 “Kill the Indians, Save the Chief”: Native American Mascots and Imperial Identities 41 4 Sammy Seminole, Jim Crow, and Osceola: Playing Indian and Racial Hierarchy at Florida State University 75 5 Body and Soul: Physicality, Disciplinarity, and the Overdetermination of Blackness 99 6 Of Rebels and Leprechauns: Longing, Passing, and the Stagings of Whiteness 129 7 Postcolonial Arenas: The Dis-Ease of Desire in America 155 Notes181 Bibliography185 Index201

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It is too easy to forget the many people and relations who make scholarship possible. Here we want to pause briefly to remind our- selves and our readership of the countless individuals who gave their time, ideas, and expertise. We express our deep gratitude to our families, friends, colleagues, and students for their contribu- tions and sacrifices. We have been lucky throughout the writing of this book to work with talented editors. The enthusiasm of Cheryl Cole and Michael Messner, the series editors, was critical in pushing this project toward its completion. And we are grateful also for the pa- tience and guidance of one-time SUNY Press acquisitions editor Dale Cotton, and SUNY production editor Michael Haggett. We owe much to numerous individuals, whose unique efforts greatly improvedRace as Spectacle in College Sport. Although we cannot reconstruct the full list, we wish to thank the following peo- ple for their advice, encouragement, and ideas: Shari Addonizio, Teddy Amoloza, Jim Anderson, Marsha Brofka, Edward Bruner, Paul Bushnell, Karen Conner, Catherine Davids, Norman K. Den- zin, Gerald Ensley, Irv Epstein, Robert Eurich, Brenda Farnell, Allan Hanson, Suzan Shown Harjo, Patti Hartman, Ginna Husting, Ishgooda, Alisa Ittner, Abby Jahiel, Kevin Karpiak, Bill Kelleher, Harvey Klevar, Lyle Lockwood, Tom Lutze, Shana Marie Basmar- ion Miller, Patra Noonan, Mwenda Ntarngai, Anthony Paredes, Chris Prendergast, David Prochaska, Debbie Reese, Bob Rinehart, George Rundblad, Joseph Schneider, April Schultz, Jim Sikora, David Sansing, Jim Stanlaw, Rose Stremlau, Lori Stanley, Ellen Staurowsky, Synthia Sydnor, Sally Thomason, and Mike Weis. We have benefited from generous institutional support as well. The Mellon Center at Illinois Wesleyan University awarded Charles

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