{"product_id":"indian-spectacle-college-mascots-and-the-anxiety-of-modern-america-paperback-softback-9780813565545","title":"Indian Spectacle; College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813565545","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIndian Spectacle\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCollege Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJennifer Guiliano (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813565545\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 April 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e194 pages, 13 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.286 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Novel and fresh, \u003ci\u003eIndian Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e is a well researched and clearly written history of sport and society in the United States. Guiliano's sound, thorough, and comprehensive book makes a significant contribution to advancing current understandings in new and important ways.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e - C. Richard King (professor of comparative ethnic studies, Washington State University) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Persuasively locating the University of Illinois as historical ground zero, Guiliano offers a beautifully written and thoroughly researched account of the development of the sport mascot. \u003ci\u003eIndian Spectacle \u003c\/i\u003esets the standard for understanding the origins of the craziness at halftime.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Philip J. Deloria (author of Playing Indian) \u003cdiv\u003e\"For such a short book, the breadth of\u003ci\u003e Indian Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e is impressive. It combines a handful of complicated, overlapping histories into a single narrative, providing the context to explore, analyze, and understand Indian mascots. This allows Guiliano to offer a nuanced understanding of the role of college sports in America and the power of their images and experiences. While college sports and mascots are the focus, \u003ci\u003eIndian Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e further challenges us to explore issues of community identity, cultural heritage, and mass marketing in other settings.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Sport in American History) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Concise and eloquently written, \u003ci\u003eIndian Spectacle \u003c\/i\u003eoffers valuable insights into the growth in popularity of football in America and the importance of the spectacle of mascots and halftime performances in narratives of white masculinity and dominance.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A welcome addition to both scholarly and popular debates about the cultural appropriaton of American Indian images as sports mascots … Scholars of cultural history, American Indian studies, and ethnic studies will find this book particularly useful, and the general reading public will find Giuliano's narrative revelatory. \u003cb\u003eHighly recommended\u003c\/b\u003e.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (CHOICE) \u003cdiv\u003e\"The hallmark of [\u003ci\u003eIndian Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e] is in bringing history to light in the contemporary conversation about Native American mascots.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (History of Education Quarterly) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIndian Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e is tightly argued and well researched, theoretically rigorous and clearly written.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Great Plains Quarterly) \u003cdiv\u003e\"An outstanding contribution to a growing literature on native mascots.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (The Historian) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A welcome historical text [that] adds a crucial perspective to this pressing and divisive issue in America.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (French Journal of Media Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/The-Mascot-Is-Fiction-The-War\/242893?cid=wsinglestory_hp_7\"'\u003e\"The Mascot Is Fiction. The War Is Real: Why Chief Illiniwek, retired more than a decade ago, still inspires anger, pain, and pride at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\" by Chris Quintana\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e (Chronicle of Higher Education) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Novel and fresh, \u003ci\u003eIndian Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e is a well researched and clearly written history of sport and society in the United States. Guiliano's sound, thorough, and comprehensive book makes a significant contribution to advancing current understandings in new and important ways.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e - C. Richard King (professor of comparative ethnic studies, Washington State University) \u003cdiv\u003e\"For such a short book, the breadth of\u003ci\u003e Indian Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e is impressive. It combines a handful of complicated, overlapping histories into a single narrative, providing the context to explore, analyze, and understand Indian mascots. This allows Guiliano to offer a nuanced understanding of the role of college sports in America and the power of their images and experiences. While college sports and mascots are the focus, \u003ci\u003eIndian Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e further challenges us to explore issues of community identity, cultural heritage, and mass marketing in other settings.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Sport in American History) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Concise and eloquently written, \u003ci\u003eIndian Spectacle \u003c\/i\u003eoffers valuable insights into the growth in popularity of football in America and the importance of the spectacle of mascots and halftime performances in narratives of white masculinity and dominance.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Persuasively locating the University of Illinois as historical ground zero, Guiliano offers a beautifully written and thoroughly researched account of the development of the sport mascot. \u003ci\u003eIndian Spectacle \u003c\/i\u003esets the standard for understanding the origins of the craziness at halftime.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Philip J. Deloria (author of Playing Indian) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A welcome addition to both scholarly and popular debates about the cultural appropriaton of American Indian images as sports mascots … Scholars of cultural history, American Indian studies, and ethnic studies will find this book particularly useful, and the general reading public will find Giuliano's narrative revelatory. \u003cb\u003eHighly recommended\u003c\/b\u003e.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (CHOICE) \u003cdiv\u003e\"The hallmark of [\u003ci\u003eIndian Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e] is in bringing history to light in the contemporary conversation about Native American mascots.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (History of Education Quarterly) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIndian Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e is tightly argued and well researched, theoretically rigorous and clearly written.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Great Plains Quarterly) \u003cdiv\u003e\"An outstanding contribution to a growing literature on native mascots.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (The Historian) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A welcome historical text [that] adds a crucial perspective to this pressing and divisive issue in America.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (French Journal of Media Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/The-Mascot-Is-Fiction-The-War\/242893?cid=wsinglestory_hp_7\"'\u003e\"The Mascot Is Fiction. The War Is Real: Why Chief Illiniwek, retired more than a decade ago, still inspires anger, pain, and pride at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\" by Chris Quintana\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e (Chronicle of Higher Education)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAmid 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 \u003ci\u003eIndian Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eIndian Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ways in which white, middle-class Americans have consumed narratives of masculinity, race, and collegiate athletics through the lens of Indian-themed athletic identities, mascots, and music. Drawing on a cross-section of American institutions of higher education, Guiliano investigates the role of sports mascots in the big business of twentieth-century American college football in order to connect mascotry to expressions of community identity, individual belonging, stereotyped imagery, and cultural hegemony.  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAgainst a backdrop of the current level of the commercialization of collegiate sports-where the collective revenue of the fifteen highest grossing teams in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has well surpassed one billion dollars-Guiliano recounts the history of the creation and spread of mascots and university identities as something bound up in the spectacle of halftime performance, the growth of collegiate competition, the influence of mass media, and how athletes, coaches, band members, spectators, university alumni, faculty, and administrators, artists, writers, and members of local communities all have contributed to the dissemination of ideas of Indianness that is rarely rooted in native people’s actual lives. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1   King Football and Gameday Spectacle \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2   An Indian versus a Colonial Legend\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3   And the Band Played Narratives of American Expansion\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4   The Limitations of Halftime Spectacle\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5   Student Investment in University Identities\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e6   Indian Bodies Performing Athletic Identity\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eConclusion\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNotes\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBibliography\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559343386904,"sku":"9780813565545","price":24.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/indian-spectacle-college-mascots-and-the-anxiety-of-modern-america-paperback-softback-9780813565545","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}