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.

Outstanding Book Award, Communication and Sport Division of the National Communication Association, 2019Best Book Award, American Studies Division of the National Communication Association, 2019— the National Communication AssociationOutstanding Book Award, Communication and Sport Division of the National Communication Association, 2019Best Book Award, American Studies Division of the National Communication Association, 2019— the National Communication Association

• 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