Mascot Nation

The Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports

Andrew C. Billings, Jason Edward Black (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2018
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08378-5 (ISBN)

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The issue of Native American mascots in sports raises passions but also a raft of often-unasked questions. Which voices get a hearing in an argument? What meanings do we ascribe to mascots? Who do these Indians and warriors really represent? Andrew C. Billings and Jason Edward Black go beyond the media bluster to reassess the mascot controversy. Their multi-dimensional study delves into the textual, visual, and ritualistic and performative aspects of sports mascots. Their original research, meanwhile, surveys sports fans themselves on their thoughts when a specific mascot faces censure. The result is a book that merges critical-cultural analysis with qualitative data to offer an innovative approach to understanding the camps and fault lines on each side of the issue, the stakes in mascot debates, whether common ground can exist and, if so, how we might find it.

Andrew C. Billings is a professor and Ronald Reagan Chair of Broadcasting in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. He is the coauthor of Olympic Television: Broadcasting the Biggest Show on Earth and Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports. Jason Edward Black is chair and a professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a coeditor of Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric: Communicating Self-Determination, the author of American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment, and a coeditor of An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings.

CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: For Whom Does the Indian Stand? For Whom Does the Mascot Stand?1. Framing the Mascot through Self-Categorization2. The Native American Mascot in the Western Gaze: Reading the Mascot through a Postcolonial Lens3. Online Debate on the Acceptability of the Washington NFL Mascot4. Deconstructing the Mascot, Part 1: Names and Textual Fields5. Deconstructing the Mascot, Part 2: Visual Symbols6. Deconstructing the Mascot, Part 3: Rituals and Performances7. What Is Lost? The Perceived Stakes of Recent and Potential Mascot Removals8. W(h)ither the Mascot? Pathways through the Logics of Native American MascottingNotesIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	02.10.2018
Zusatzinfo	45 black & white photographs, 3 charts, 11 tables
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-08378-4 / 0252083784
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08378-5 / 9780252083785
Zustand	Neuware