Dr. Tracie Canada Publishes New Book on Black College Football Players
With a Black feminist approach, one that highlights often-overlooked voices, Dr. Tracie Canada (CulAnth) exposes how race, gender, kinship, and care shape the lives of the young athletes who shoulder America's favorite game. In Tackling the Everyday (UC Press), Dr. Canada 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.
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