Beyond the Cheers

C. Richard King is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Drake University. He is the author of Colonial Discourses, Collective Memories, and the Exhibition of Native American Cultures and Histories in the Contemporary United States. Charles Fruehling Springwood is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Illinois Wesleyan University. He is the author of Cooperstown to Dyersville: A Geography of Baseball Nostalgia.

• Acknowledgments 1. Posting Up: Introductory Notes on Race, Sports, and Post-America 2. White Out: Erasures of Race in College Athletics 3 "Kill the Indians, Save the Chief": Native American Mascots and Imperial Identities 4. Sammy Seminole, Jim Crow, and Osceola: Playing Indian and Racial Hierarchy at Florida State University 5. Body and Soul: Physicality, Disciplinarity, and the Overdetermination of Blackness 6. Of Rebels and Leprechauns: Longing, Passing, and the Stagings of Whiteness 7. Postcolonial Arenas: The Dis-Ease of Desire in America Notes Bibliography Index

"...the first mature work focused on the cultural politics of intercollegiate athletics. In one fell swoop it takes the study of college sport onto an elevated plain." — David L. Andrews, The University of Memphis"Crisp, accessible, and free of jargon...it is hard to put down. The authors show how racist images and practices are embedded in the cultures of higher education, stitched into the cultures of specific campuses, and take on forms that interact with surrounding racial representations, racial groups, practices, and histories." — Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"An important contribution to understanding the dynamic of race as it plays out in intercollegiate athletics and higher education. Extremely interesting." — Ellen J. Staurowsky, coauthor of College Athletes for Hire: The Evolution and Legacy of the NCAA's Amateur Myth