Tracie Canada

Journal Article Kinesiology Review · 2025 Drawing on almost a decade of immersive research with Black college football players, I argue that an anthropological and ethnographic approach to tackle football can complement studies in kinesiology by acknowledging the humanity, personhood, and ... Full text Cite

The Troubling Truth About the World War II-Era Rose Bowl That Became Part of American Sports Lore

Internet Publication · 2025 Link to item Cite

Weathering Anti-Blackness

Journal Article Current Anthropology · December 1, 2024 Full text Cite

The myth of the college football family has nothing to do with love

Internet Publication · February 22, 2024 Link to item Cite

From Savage to Negro: The Only Required Text

Journal Article Transforming Anthropology · October 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Black Mothers and NFL Moms Safety Clinics: An Ethnography of Care in American Football

Journal Article Journal of Sport and Social Issues · April 1, 2023 Drawing on years of ethnographic research, this article highlights the importance of Black women's mothering, care work, and labor as their sons find success in American football. By centering Black mothers, the divide between the bureaucratic care offered ... Full text Cite

Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football

Internet Publication · January 6, 2023 Link to item Cite

Playing Through a Pandemic: Football Bodies, Racialized Violence, and Institutionalized Care

Chapter · 2023 Full text Cite

Plantation Logics at the NFL Combine

Internet Publication · September 14, 2022 Link to item Cite

Amateurism as a Narrative of Control

Journal Article Sports Innovation Journal · August 29, 2022 The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) uses amateurism as a narrative to control college athletes, which affects how scholars conduct research with these athletes. This article speaks to issues that arise among qualitative researchers ... Full text Cite

The Spectacle of Black Family Trauma Through The NFL Draft

Internet Publication · May 4, 2022 Link to item Cite

“Colin In Black And White” Manifests The Power And Politics Of Hair For Black Athletes

Internet Publication · November 23, 2021 Link to item Cite

Anti-Blackness and College Football

Internet Publication · July 15, 2021 Link to item Cite

The NFL’s Racist ‘Race Norming’ Is an Afterlife of Slavery

Internet Publication · July 8, 2021 Link to item Cite

Special Focus: Engaging ‘The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology’

Internet Publication · April 2021 Link to item Cite

Tackling Care and Capitalism in College Football

Internet Publication · December 14, 2020 Link to item Cite

A Kelleyan Approach to Anthropology

Internet Publication · July 8, 2019 Link to item Cite

For the Love of Football

Internet Publication · August 21, 2018 Link to item Cite

:Raised Up Down Yonder: Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama. Angela McMillan Howell. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2013. xii + 244 pp. (Cloth US$55.00; Paper, $30.00)

Book Review Transforming Anthropology · April 1, 2017 Full text Cite

Is it Worth it? Science Education of the Talented 2%

Journal Article Transforming Anthropology · October 1, 2016 This essay critiques mismatch theory in science education, a theory supported by opponents of affirmative action who strive to derail efforts to diversify institutions of higher education. Can high-achieving students survive and thrive in an academic envir ... Full text Open Access Cite

:Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity. Kwame Anthony Appiah. The W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series, 2010. Cambridge, MA, and London, UK: Harvard University Press, 2014 . xi + 227 pp. (Cloth US$18.95)

Book Review Transforming Anthropology · October 1, 2015 Full text Cite

Practice

Chapter · 2000 Link to item Cite