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Fighting Spirits

The Racial Politics of Sports Mascots

C. Richard King

Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa

Charles Fruehling Springwood

Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois

This article explores the racial politics of sports mascots through a comparative account of the uses of Indianness at Florida State University and the centrality of Confederate symbols at the University of Mississippi. It avoids the temptation of romanticizing resistance as well as easy, if not impulsive, condemnations. Instead, employing a neo-Gramscian and poststructural framework, it seeks to complicate prevailing understandings of sports mascots. It details the contours of imperial Whiteness and the competing efforts to reformulate Euro-American identity emergent in its wake. At the same time, it theorizes the awkward alliances often forged between subalterns and institutions with racially charged sports mascots.

Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Vol. 24, No. 3, 282-304 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/0193723500243005
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