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Rutgers University Press Lakota Hoops: Life and Basketball on Pine Ridge
Book SynopsisFor over 150 years the Lakota have tenaciously defended their culture and land against white miners, settlers, missionaries, and the U.S. Army, and paid the price. Their economy is in shambles and they face serious social issues, but their culture and outlook remain vibrant. Basketball has a role to play in the way that people on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation configure their hopes for a better future, and for pride in their community. In Lakota Hoops, anthropologist Alan Klein trains his experienced eye on the ways that Lakota traditions find a seamless expression in the sport. In a variety of way such as weaving time-honored religious practices into the game or extending the warrior spirit of Crazy Horse to the players on the court, basketball has become a preferred way of finding continuity with the past. But the game is also well suited to the present and has become the largest regular gathering for all Lakota, promoting national pride as well as a venue for the community to creatively and aggressively confront white bigotry when needed. Richly researched and filled with interviews with Pine Ridge residents, including both male and female players, Lakota Hoops offers a compelling look at the highs and lows of a community that has made basketball its own.Trade Review"Basketball is so much more than just a game; it is a cultural resource that allows the Pine Ridge community to express their identity against a social landscape of poverty, racism, and domination. In Lakota Hoops, Klein provides an important statement about sport in Indian Country, sketching out the larger structural landscape in which the actions of some Lakota basketball players unfold. In learning about the individuals, we learn the logic behind their actions and how they interact with the larger context of ongoing US colonization of native lands." -- Jeffery Montez de Oca * author of Discipline and Indulgence *"I've long thought that Alan Klein might be the most important anthropologist of sport in our midst. Lakota Hoops confirms that. Unflinchingly honest, brilliantly argued, and gracefully written, it's a tour de force about sport, Lakota culture, and a reality this nation has yet to fully confront." -- Rob Ruck * Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL *Alan Klein interview with Ramon Maclin about Lakota Hoops * Alan Klein interview with Ramon Maclin *Basketball is so much more than just a game; it is a cultural resource that allows the Pine Ridge community to express their identity against a social landscape of poverty, racism, and domination. In Lakota Hoops, Klein provides an important statement about sport in Indian Country, sketching out the larger structural landscape in which the actions of some Lakota basketball players unfold. In learning about the individuals, we learn the logic behind their actions and how they interact with the larger context of ongoing US colonization of native lands. -- Jeffery Montez de Oca * author of Discipline and Indulgence *I've long thought that Alan Klein might be the most important anthropologist of sport in our midst. Lakota Hoops confirms that. Unflinchingly honest, brilliantly argued, and gracefully written, it's a tour de force about sport, Lakota culture, and a reality this nation has yet to fully confront. -- Rob Ruck * Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL *Alan Klein interview with Ramon Maclin about Lakota Hoops * Alan Klein interview with Ramon Maclin *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Landmarks in Lakota LifeTHE GOOD Chapter 2: SWEATING, SMUDGING, AND SUN DANCING: Dusty LeBeau’s Fusion of Basketball and Tradition Chapter 3: THE LAKOTA NATION INVITATIONAL: Bryan Brewer’s Invented Tradition Chapter 4: “MANNING UP:” Jess Heart, Lakota Manhood and Hoops Chapter 5: LAURA BIG CROW: Coming Back, to Pass It ForwardTHE BAD Chapter 6: PINE RIDGE - RED CLOUD RIVALRY: The Tip of a Factional Ice Berg Chapter 7: CRABS IN A BUCKET: Lakota Factionalism and BasketballTHE UGLY Chapter 8: ENGAGING ACRIMONY: Racism and Lakota Basketball in South Dakota Index
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Rutgers University Press Changing on the Fly: Hockey through the Voices of
Book SynopsisWinner of the NASSS Outstanding Book Award Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced to question the relationship and tensions between these two social constructs. This book examines the growing significance of hockey in Canada’s South Asian communities. The Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi broadcast serves as an entry point for a broader consideration of South Asian experiences in hockey culture based on field work and interviews conducted with hockey players, parents, and coaches in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. This book seeks to inject more “color” into hockey’s historically white dominated narratives and representations by returning hockey culture to its multicultural roots. It encourages alternative and multiple narratives about hockey and cultural citizenship by asking which citizens are able to contribute to the webs of meaning that form the nation’s cultural fabric.Trade Review"Changing on the Fly will force a rethinking of race, hockey, and the politics of citizenship in the social margins. In this pioneering text, Szto’s rich intertextuality highlights the competing and contradictory nature of race and representation in sport. There is nothing else like it." -- Stanley Thangaraj * author of Desi Hoop Dreams *"Changing on the Fly offers an original, powerful analysis of the hockey rink and the racial, national, gendered, and political landscape. Szto's ability to build on existing scholarship all while carving out new areas of analysis and her centering of South Asian Canadians' voices will change the ways we talk about sport, about hockey and about the (South) Asian Diaspora. Stzo is a force who will shape discussions in sports studies for decades to come. The future of sports studies is in good hands with Stzo leading the way." -- David Leonard * author of Playing While White: Privilege and Power on and off the Field *"A groundbreaking book. Courtney Szto’s insightful study of hockey’s growing significance in Canadian South Asian communities, as well as challenges faced by racialized Canadians when they play the game, makes an important contribution to the analysis of contemporary Canadian society." -- Richard Gruneau * Simon Fraser University *"This is a desperately-needed intervention from our most influential scholar of race and hockey through both a systematic and nuanced analysis of how multiculturalism and racism shape Canada and its beloved sport, and a powerful account of how those dynamics are experienced." -- Nathan Kalman-Lamb * author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport *"Interview: Dr. Courtney Szto, author of "Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South Asian Canadians" https://www.burnitalldownpod.com/episodes/interview-dr-courtney-szto-author-of-changing-on-the-fly-hockey-through-the-voices-of-south-asian-canadians * Burn It All Down podcast *"Changing on the Fly interrogates the culture of hockey honestly, and from a place of love, offering a critique that is meant to change the nature of the sport so that everyone — not just white, straight Canadian men and boys — can truly have a place in it." * The Tyee *"The groundbreaking work of Courtney Szto in Changing on the Fly captures the multiple ways that the Canadian national pastime of ice hockey constitutes an important site to examine the essential izing and shifting realms of race and belonging....[A] call to action and a demand to think about race critically in relation to sport and the nation. Changing on the Fly destabilizes the normative investments in sport and the nation while articulating forms of citizenship that can be liberating. With the increasing discussion and silence around race in professional sports, this book is vital to understanding the expansive infrastructure that secures whiteness and excludes communities of color." * Sociology of Sport Journal *Table of ContentsContents Dedication - iii List of Acronyms - vii Acknowledgements - 1 Introduction - 2 Complicating Canadian Culture - 7 Research Methods - 13 Overview of the Book - 17 Chapter 1 Myth Busting: Hockey, multiculturalism, and Canada - 21 Myth #1: Hockey is Canada - 21 Who or what are we integrating? - 26 Myth #2: Canada is a multicultural haven - 31 Whiteness in Canadian hockey - 38 Citizenship - 41 South Asians in Canada - 44 The Space of Surrey - 48 Chapter 2 Narratives from the Screen: Media and cultural citizenship - 53 Hockey Night in Punjabi - 55 Ethnic (Sports) Media - 59 Breaking Barriers - 62 Co-Authoring One’s Existence - 63 Limits of Ethnic Media - 71 Chapter 3 White Spaces, Different Faces: Policing membership at the rink and in the nation - 78 Who belongs in a space? Who is trespassing? - 79 Self-Identification - 88 Brown - 92 Being the Only One - 98 Chapter 4 Racist Taunts of Just Chirping? - 101 Just chirping? - 105 Was it really racist? - 111 An archive of evidence - 119 Chapter 5 South Asian Masculinities and Femininities - 124 The irony of hockey performativity - 124 South Asian masculinities - 132 Verbal trauma and the body - 138 South Asian femininities - 143 The noisiness of women’s hockey - 149 Chapter 6 Hockey Hurdles and Resilient Subjects: Unpacking forms of capital - 157 Navigating forms of capital - 166 Cost, time, and interconnections with other forms of capital - 166 Language and other aspects of cultural capital - 170 The gatekeepers - 175 Assumptions about diversity: Flaws in logic - 181 Meritocratic and resilient subjects - 185 Chapter 7 Racialized Money and White Fragility: Class and resentment in hockey - 192 Model minorities - 193 Throwing money at hockey - 199 White fragility - 204 Brown out hockey: Capitalism at its best - 209 Chapter 8 Taking Stock: Public memory and the re-telling of hockey in Canada - 217 Hockey Hall of Fame - 220 The role of media - 223 Writing in: DIY citizenship - 226 Conclusion: A commitment to the future - 232 Shifting labor - 235 Writing the wrong - 239 Appendix A: Qualitative methodology - 241 Appendix B: Participant information - 254 Appendix C: British Columbia competitive hockey structure - 256 References - 258 About the author - 296
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Rutgers University Press Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention - 2022 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Special Admission contradicts the national belief that college sports provide upward mobility opportunities. Kirsten Hextrum documents how white middle-class youth become overrepresented on college teams. Her institutional ethnography of one elite athletic and academic institution includes over 100 hours of interviews with college rowers and track & field athletes. She charts the historic and contemporary relationships between colleges, athletics, and white middle-class communities that ensure white suburban youth are advantaged in special athletic admissions. Suburban youth start ahead in college admissions because athletic merit—the competencies desired by university recruiters—requires access to vast familial, communal, and economic resources, all of which are concentrated in their neighborhoods. Their advantages increase as youth, parents, and coaches strategically invest in and engineer novel opportunities to maintain their race and class status. Thus, college sports allow white, middle-class athletes to accelerate their racial and economic advantages through admission to elite universities.Trade Review“Special Admission is a truly outstanding work that provides a point of informed entry into a previously largely neglected topic. It is a graphic indictment of an institution which–despite all reifying allusions to the contrary–is a highly effective engine of social differentiation.” — David L. Andrews, Physical Cultural Studies Research Group, University of Maryland, author of Making Sport Great Again "Readers engaging with this book can expect to understand the historical, political, and economic factors that influence current practices in college admissions, with a critical analysis about the racial and gender exclusion of non-white athletes and the concentration of resources in white, suburban areas. Central themes within the work focus on race, gender, economic status, state control and access to resources as the contextual factors that influence the favoritism of white athletes in college admissions."— International Journal of Educational Integrity "Special Admission: Dr. Kirsten Hextrum Discusses How College Athletic Recruitment Favors White Suburbia" — Diverse: Issues in Higher Education "With careful research and astute analysis, Kirsten Hextrum unveils the systemic ways privilege works in and through sport. Special Admission is a game-changer for anyone who cares about college sports and social justice."— Michael A. Messner, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California "Supreme Court Roundup: Voting Rights And NCAA Athletes" interview with Kristen Hextrum— WORT - "A Public Affair" "What the NCAA ruling really means for student athletes" by Faith Karimi— CNN.com "College athletics are routinely portrayed as a vehicle of social mobility. Kirsten Hextrum proves that the opposite is true. White-dominated sports, such as crew and lacrosse, offer a hidden pathway to college admissions that is known only to affluent, suburban parents. Meticulously researched and conversationally written, Special Admission exposes the fundamental unfairness and hypocrisy of college sports. It impels action."— Evan J. Mandery, author of A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America "Kirsten Hextrum has perfect timing. Her work is not only topical but carefully researched and very well-argued. She reveals the extent of special admissions for athletes and its negative effects: on the university and, ironically, often on the athletes themselves. Special Admission is a must-read for everyone concerned with unfair college admission procedures, and especially for all those parents who are dreaming of athletic scholarships for their children."— Murray Sperber, Indiana University, Bloomington, author of Beer and Circus: How Bigtime College Sports Is CripplingTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Gentlemen’s Agreement: College Sports Become a State Institution 2 The State Alignment: White Suburbia and Athletic Talent 3 Build a Wall: The State Segregates Sports 4 Activating Capital: Pay-to-Play Sports 5 A Guide: Socializing Future College Athletes 6 The Offer Letter: Athletic Talent Secures Preferential College Access Conclusion: Altering the Path Appendix A: Study Participant Background Characteristics Appendix B: Participant Recruitment Appendix C: High School Sports Relative to College Sports Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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