Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes

by Kirsten Hextrum

Book Overview

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