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- Title
THIS IS NOT AN INDIAN: Situating Claims About Indianness in Sporting Worlds.
- Authors
King, C. Richard
- Abstract
This article reviews the history and significance of Native American mascots as well as the ongoing controversy over the continued use of pseudo-Indian imagery in athletics. It offers a succinct review of the literature, identifying three key foci: stereotyping historical structures, and institutional arrangements. Against this background, it underscores the central concerns and core contribution of the special: the examination of the competing and contradictory claims made on, off about, and through Indianness in the creation and contestation of Native American mascots. It attends to the appropriation of Indianness at the heart of American imperialism as well as recent efforts to reclaim control over Indianness through a decolonization of sporting worlds. A summary of the scope and significance of each of the contributions to the special issue follows.
- Subjects
NATIVE Americans as mascots; NATIVE Americans; ATHLETICS; SPORTS; IMPERIALISM; DECOLONIZATION
- Publication
Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 2004, Vol 28, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0193-7235
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0193732503261147