"How Black College Football Players Tackle their Everyday"
by
Dr. Tracie Canada
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and director of the HEARTS (Health, Ethnography, and Race through Sports) Lab
Duke University
College football, with its prestige, drama, media, and money, is a core feature of the sporting landscape in the US. However, the promises of an “amateur” system that offers a “free” education contradict the reality. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Dr. Canada describes how this system particularly harms, disadvantages, and exploits the Black men who are demographically overrepresented on gridirons across the country. In this
talk, she highlights how she engages multiple audiences in her ethnographic writing, which details how Black college football players tackle the systems that structure their everyday lives, and who helps them do it.
ORGANIZED BY THE SPORTS AND SOCIETY INITIATIVE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Light refreshments will be available