Special Admission

How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes

Kirsten Hextrum (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2021
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2121-7 (ISBN)

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Contradicts the American belief that college sports provide upward mobility opportunities. Kirsten Hextrum 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.

Honorable 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.

KIRSTEN HEXTRUM is an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies and a faculty affiliate in women’s and gender studies at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma.

Preface

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

Erscheinungsdatum	14.07.2021
Zusatzinfo	6 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	463 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-2121-2 / 1978821212
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2121-7 / 9781978821217
Zustand	Neuware