TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hextrum,Kirsten
TI  - Special admission: how college sports recruitment favors white, suburban athletes 
T2  - The American campus
SN  - 9781978821248
AV  - GV350.5 .H48 2021eb
U1  - 796.04/3092 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New Brunswick, New Jersey
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - College athletes
KW  - Recruiting
KW  - United States
KW  - College sports
KW  - Corrupt practices
KW  - Discrimination in higher education
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - Admission
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
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