About the book
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 from some of the country’s most prominent college football teams, 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 college football 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.
Editions of The End of College Football
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781469683454
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781469683461
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469683478
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469683492
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469683508
- PDF
- ISBN 9781469683485
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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 from some of the country’s most prominent college football teams, 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 college football 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is The End of College Football about?
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 from some of the country’s most prominent college football teams, 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 college football 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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in The End of College Football?
Society and Social Sciences > Sociology and anthropology > Sociology > Sociology: sport and leisure
Where can I read a sample of The End of College Football?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781469683454
How long is The End of College Football and how many pages does it have?
The End of College Football has 272 page(s)
Who is/are the Author/s of the book The End of College Football?
Derek Silva, Nathan Kalman-Lamb
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
The End of College Football is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781469683454) and paperback(ISBN 9781469683461) and ebook(ISBN 9781469683478) and ebook(ISBN 9781469683492) and ebook(ISBN 9781469683508) and pdf(ISBN 9781469683485)
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