Book Review: Tackling the Everyday (2025), by Tracie Canada

“Tackling the Everyday is about “Black college football players, how they tackle the exploitative and violent systems that structure their everyday lives, and who helps them do it” (3). It is based on research conducted between 2012 and 2018, including a year of participant-observation from 2017 to 2018 at two universities with Division I football teams. From the outset, Canada, an anthropologist, acknowledges that all players deal with the issues discussed in the book, but argues that “Black players relate to them differently because … the risks and challenges they face as college football players are magnified by the social experience of Blackness” (6)…“

Read the review in the Journal of Sport History, Vol. 52, No. 3 (2025), pp. 189–191.