Mascot Nation

Andrew C. Billings is a professor and Ronald Reagan Chair of Broadcasting in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. He is the coauthor of Olympic Television: Broadcasting the Biggest Show on Earth and Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports. Jason Edward Black is chair and a professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a coeditor of Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric: Communicating Self-Determination, the author of American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment, and a coeditor of An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings.  

CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: For Whom Does the Indian Stand? For Whom Does the Mascot Stand?1. Framing the Mascot through Self-Categorization2. The Native American Mascot in the Western Gaze: Reading the Mascot through a Postcolonial Lens3. Online Debate on the Acceptability of the Washington NFL Mascot4. Deconstructing the Mascot, Part 1: Names and Textual Fields5. Deconstructing the Mascot, Part 2: Visual Symbols6. Deconstructing the Mascot, Part 3: Rituals and Performances7. What Is Lost? The Perceived Stakes of Recent and Potential Mascot Removals8. W(h)ither the Mascot? Pathways through the Logics of Native American MascottingNotesIndex