LEADER 04110oam 22006133 450 001 9910794657103321 005 20231220225423.0 010 $a1-9788-2124-7 024 7 $a10.36019/9781978821248 035 $a(CKB)4100000011946171 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6630693 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6630693 035 $a(OCoLC)1255416558 035 $a(DE-B1597)590618 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781978821248 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011946171 100 $a20210901d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSpecial admission $ehow college sports recruitment favors white, suburban athletes /$fKirsten Hextrum 210 1$aNew Brunswick :$cRutgers University Press,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (261 pages) 225 1 $aThe American Campus 311 0 $a1-9788-2121-2 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$t1 Gentlemen?s Agreement. College Sports Become a State Institution --$t2 The State Alignment White Suburbia and Athletic Talent --$t3 Build a Wall The State Segregates Sports --$t4 Activating Capital Pay-to- Play Sports --$t5 A Guide Socializing Future College Athletes --$t6 The Offer Letter Athletic Talent Secures Preferential College Access --$tConclusion Altering the Path --$tAppendix A Study Participant Background Characteristics --$tAppendix B Participant Recruitment --$tAppendix C High School Sports Relative to College Sports --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aSpecial Admission contradicts the national belief that college sports provide upward mobility opportunities. Kirsten Hextrum documents how white middle-class youth become overrepresented on college teams. Her institutional ethnography of one elite athletic and academic institution includes over 100 hours of interviews with college rowers and track & field athletes. She charts the historic and contemporary relationships between colleges, athletics, and white middle-class communities that ensure white suburban youth are advantaged in special athletic admissions. Suburban youth start ahead in college admissions because athletic merit?the competencies desired by university recruiters?requires access to vast familial, communal, and economic resources, all of which are concentrated in their neighborhoods. Their advantages increase as youth, parents, and coaches strategically invest in and engineer novel opportunities to maintain their race and class status. Thus, college sports allow white, middle-class athletes to accelerate their racial and economic advantages through admission to elite universities. 410 4$aThe American Campus 517 $aSpecial Admission 606 $aCollege athletes$xRecruiting$zUnited States 606 $aCollege sports$xCorrupt practices$zUnited States 606 $aDiscrimination in higher education$zUnited States 606 $aUniversities and colleges$xAdmission$xCorrupt practices$zUnited States 606 $aUniversities and colleges$zUnited States$xAdmission$xCorrupt practices 606 $aEDUCATION / General$2bisacsh 610 $acollege sports, college athletics, white middle class, middle class, white students, white athletes, suburb, suburban youth, white suburban, suburban athletes, sports association, coaches, class status, elite universities, athletic talent, segregated sports, athletic scholarship, college athletes. 615 0$aCollege athletes$xRecruiting 615 0$aCollege sports$xCorrupt practices 615 0$aDiscrimination in higher education 615 0$aUniversities and colleges$xAdmission$xCorrupt practices 615 0$aUniversities and colleges$xAdmission$xCorrupt practices. 615 7$aEDUCATION / General. 676 $a796.04/3092 700 $aHextrum$b Kirsten$01571303 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794657103321 996 $aSpecial admission$93845655 997 $aUNINA