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Special admission how college sports recruitment favors white, suburban athletes
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| 서명/저자사항 | Special admission : how college sports recruitment favors white, suburban athletes/ Kirsten Hextrum. |
| 개인저자 | Hextrum, Kirsten,author. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
| 총서사항 | The American campus |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Hextrum, Kirsten. Special admission. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2021 9781978821200 |
| ISBN | 9781978821248 1978821247 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Preface -- Introduction -- Gentlemen's agreement : college sports become a state institution -- The state alignment : white suburbia and athletic talent -- Build a wall : the state segregates sports -- Activating capital : pay-to-play sports -- A guide : socializing future college athletes -- The offer letter : athletic talent secures preferential college access -- Conclusion : altering the path. |
| 요약 | "Special Admission contradicts the national belief that college sports provide upward mobility opportunities. Kirsten Hextrum documents how white middle-class youth become overrepresented on college teams. Her institutional ethnography of one elite athletic and academic institution includes over 100 hours of interviews with college rowers and track & field athletes. She charts the historic and contemporary relationships between colleges, athletics, and white middle-class communities that ensure white suburban youth are advantaged in special athletic admissions. Suburban youth start ahead in college admissions because athletic merit-the competencies desired by university recruiters-requires access to vast familial, communal, and economic resources, all of which are concentrated in their neighborhoods. Their advantages increase as youth, parents, and coaches strategically invest in and engineer novel opportunities to maintain their race and class status. Thus, college sports allow white, middle-class athletes to accelerate their racial and economic advantages through admission to elite universities"-- |
| 해제 | Provided by publisher. |
| 주제명(지명) | United States. --fast |
| 일반주제명 | College athletes --Recruiting --United States. College sports --Corrupt practices --United States. Discrimination in higher education --United States. Universities and colleges --Admission --Corrupt practices --United States. College athletes --Recruiting. College sports --Corrupt practices. Discrimination in higher education. |
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