Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes

(Part of the The American Campus Series)

by Kirsten Hextrum

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Honorable Mention - 2022 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award

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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1978821204

ISBN13:9781978821200

Release Date:August 2021

Publisher:Rutgers University Press

Length:260 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Education Education & Reference Social Science Social Sciences Sports & Outdoors Sports & Recreation

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