The end of college football : on the human cost of an all-American game / Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva.
| Author/creator |
Kalman-Lamb, Nathan, 1983- author. |
| Other author/creator | Silva, Derek M. D., author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2024] |
| Description | xvii, 252 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Exploitation and harm in the ivory tower and on the gridiron -- "Play"-ing college football -- Failure to educate -- Beyond compensation -- Plantation dynamics: racial capitalism through college football -- They signed up for it: coercion and consent in college football -- The normalization of college football during a global pandemic -- Cancel college football. |
| Abstract | "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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2024020850 |
| ISBN | 9781469683454 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1469683458 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781469683461 paperback |
| ISBN | 1469683466 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | GV956.4 .K35 2024 | Item has been checked out - Due: 03/26/2025 | Want This? |