Mascot Nation : The Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports /

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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? The authors go beyond the media bluster to reassess the ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Billings, Andrew C. (Autor), Black, Jason Edward (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sports team mascots > Social aspects.
Sports spectators > Attitudes.
Indians in popular culture.
Indians as mascots.
SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION / History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies.
Indiens d'Amerique dans la culture populaire > États-Unis.
Supporters > États-Unis > Attitudes.
Équipes sportives > Mascottes > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Indiens d'Amerique (Mascottes)
Indians in popular culture > United States.
Sports spectators > United States > Attitudes.
Sports team mascots > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : for whom does the Indian stand? For whom does the mascot stand?
  • Framing the mascot through self-categorization
  • The Native American mascot in the western gaze : reading the mascot through a postcolonial lens
  • Online debate on the acceptability of the Washington NFL mascot
  • Deconstructing the mascot, part 1 : names and textual fields
  • Deconstructing the mascot, part 2 : visual symbols
  • Deconstructing the mascot, part 3 : rituals and performances
  • What Is lost? : the perceived stakes of recent and potential mascot removals
  • W(h)ither the mascot? : pathways through the logics of Native American mascotting.

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