Tracie Canada

Tracie Canada was awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship in October 2024 to aid writing on “Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football” and a set of complementary articles and op-eds that discuss themes found in the book. This work, as a whole, describes how college football particularly harms the Black men who are demographically overrepresented on gridirons across the country, given this violent sport is also exploitative and anti-Black. The book tells how Black college football players tackle the systems that structure their everyday lives, and who helps them do it. Although coaches claim to support their players through a football family, the work reveals that Black players form brotherhood to support each other under the constant care of their mothers, on and off the field. The book was published by University of California Press and other writing from the fellowship period can be found in TIME Magazine, Essence Magazine, American Anthropologist, American Quarterly, and Kinesiology Review.