Indian Spectacle: College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America

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Jennifer Guiliano, "Indian Spectacle: College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America "
English | ISBN: 0813565553 | 2015 | 194 pages | EPUB | 6 MB

Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K–12 schools, Americans demonstrate an expanding sensitivity to the pejorative use of references to Native Americans by sports organizations at all levels. In Indian Spectacle, Jennifer Guiliano exposes the anxiety of American middle-class masculinity in relation to the growing commercialization of collegiate sports and the indiscriminate use of Indian identity as mascots.
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