The Great American Football Ritual: Reproducing Race, Class, and Gender Inequality
The Great American Football Ritual: Reproducing Race, Class, and Gender Inequality
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伟大的美式橄榄球仪式：再现种族、阶级和性别不平等
DOI：
10.1123/ssj.7.2.111
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发表时间：
1990
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Douglas E. Foley
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作者：
Douglas E. Foley
一个足球赛季在南德克萨斯州的一个小镇的人种学研究，探讨社区体育的程度，作为各种批评理论家建议，一个潜在的网站，为反霸权文化习俗。足球被概念化为一种主要的社区仪式，使未来几代年轻人社会化。这种广泛的，整体的社会化的描述也注意到各种时刻的种族抵抗所产生的奇卡诺民权运动。其他时刻的阶级和性别的抵制足球仪式也注意到。最后，球员们普遍抵制试图彻底合理化他们的运动的方式也被描述。尽管这些时刻的阻力，这项研究最终表明，如何深深牵连社区体育在这种情况下，高中足球是在阶级，性别和种族不平等的再现。尽管对新的种族统治者做出了让步，但白色统治阶级和该镇的父权制性别关系得到了保留。
An ethnographic study of one football season in a small South Texas town is presented to explore the extent that community sport is, as various critical theorists have suggested, a potential site for counterhegemonic cultural practices. Football is conceptualized as a major community ritual that socializes future generations of youth. This broad, holistic description of socialization also notes various moments of ethnic resistance engendered by the Chicano civil rights movement. Other moments of class and gender resistance to the football ritual are also noted. Finally, the way players generally resisted attempts to thoroughly rationalize their sport is also described. In spite of these moments of resistance, this study ultimately shows how deeply implicated community sport—in this case high school football—is in the reproduction of class, gender, and racial inequality. The white ruling class and the town’s patriarchal system of gender relations are preserved in spite of concessions to the new ethnic chal...