Tackling the Everyday

"Much has been written about college football, describing both its ongoing appeal to fans and its exploitation of players. Tracie Canada's book offers a brilliant Black feminist contribution to the literature on sports, race, and gender. She centers the everyday experiences of Black college football players, focusing on how they navigate the institutions and structures that organize their lives, from the football field to their classes. Canada uniquely focuses on the networks of care, friendship, love, and intimacy that they forge and rely on for support and sustenance. Tackling the Everyday is essential reading for any scholar--or fan--interested in race and sports."--Jennifer C. Nash, author of How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory "This brilliant ethnography captures the lives of young men as they unfold on and off the gridiron, bringing valuable Black feminist theorization of Black masculinities to how players navigate everyday systems predicated on anti-Blackness. Powerful."--Lisa Uperesa, author of Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game