Tribal: College Football and the Secret Heart of America, by Diane Roberts
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Part introspective soul searching, part cultural analysis, Tribal tackles the controversies plaguing college athletics, tracing the dubious historical underpinnings of Americans’ most popular sport, offering a visceral and often funny analysis of its tribal thrills and deep contradictions.
Florida State’s football team is always in the headlines, producing Heisman Trophy candidates, winning championships, and, at the same time, dealing with federal investigations into corruption and rape. Same as many big time collegiate sports programs. Seems no matter how the team transgresses off the field, if they excel on the field, everyone forgives them. Writer, professor and conflicted Seminole Diane Roberts looks at the problems plaguing her campus in Tallahassee, examining them within the context of college football itself and its significance in American life, and explores how the game shapes our culture.
Tribal: College Football and the Secret Heart of America, by Diane Roberts - Amazon Sales Rank: #430617 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-27
- Released on: 2015-10-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .89" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
Tribal: College Football and the Secret Heart of America, by Diane Roberts Review “Tribal is a lover’s quarrel with college football so raucous, so entertainingly appalled, and so wise that it goes down as easily as a shot of bourbon from a smuggled flask on a Saturday afternoon in the fall.” (Will Blythe, New York Times bestselling author of To Hate Like This is to Be Happy Forever)“…a penetrating examination of how and why football has infiltrated our system of higher education…” (Salon)“In Diane Roberts’s deft hands, football is never just a game-it’s a mirror of American attitudes toward gender, class, and especially race. Roberts is a brilliant cultural critic and a dream of a writer, and Tribal is not only timely-it’s necessary reading.” (Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Devil in the Grove)“People who have decided to read one book having to do with college football should choose Tribal. Roberts presents the attractions of the game as well as the recognition that college football as practiced at Florida State and places like it is indefensible-part ‘beloved tradition,’ part ‘corporate enterprise.” (Boston Globe)“Those experiences were no doubt the germ of Tribal which exudes Roberts’ satirical Southern sensibility and way of wrapping hard truths in a droll, frequently bawdy and baroque kind of humor that can combine TMZ tabloid shock and Faulknerian literary awe in the same paragraph.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)“A gifted writer, [Roberts] is rightly outraged by the sport and her school’s links with some of the uglier aspects of American life, but she truly adores the ‘Noles. Most readers will share her ambivalence while thoroughly enjoying her take on a troubled sport.” (Booklist)“[Tribal] affords an explanation of one of the most profound puzzles of today’s college-sports scene: why the NCAA colossus has not only secured the American psyche in a stranglehold but continues to tighten its grip.” (BookForum)“Diane Roberts is a wonder. She’s a surpassingly insightful writer and is as funny as a stand-up comic. Her book Tribal, on college football and far more, is a sui generis masterpiece.” (Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain)“Diane Roberts is irresistible, the Molly Ivins of Florida, and Tribal is essential to understanding the dynamics of American culture. Tribal isn’t just a good book, it’s a great one-and hilarious to boot.” (Bob Shacochis, National Book Award-winning author of Easy in the Islands)
From the Back Cover
One overeducated Florida State fan confronts the religiously perverted, racially suspect, and sexually fraught nature of the sport she hates to love: college football.
Diane Roberts is a self-described feminist with a PhD from Oxford. She's also a second-generation season ticket holder—and an English professor—at one of the elite college football schools in the country. It's not as if she approves of the violence and hypermasculinity on display; she just can't help herself. So every Saturday from September through December she surrenders to her Inner Barbarian. The same goes for the rest of her "tribe," those thousands of hooting, hollering, beer-swilling Seminoles who, like Roberts, spent the 2013–14 season basking in the loping, history-making Hail Marys of Jameis Winston, the team's Heisman-winning quarterback, when they weren't gawking, dumbstruck, at the headlines in which he was accused of sexual assault.
In Tribal, Roberts explores college football's grip on the country at the very moment when gender roles are blurring, social institutions are in flux, and the question of who is—and is not—an American is frequently challenged. For die-hard fans, the sport is a comfortable retreat into tradition, proof of our national virility, and a reflection of an America without troubling ambiguities. Yet, Roberts argues, it is also a representation of the buried heart of this country: a game and a culture built upon the dark past of the South, secrets so obvious they hide in plain sight. With her droll Southern voice and a phrase-turning style reminiscent of Roy Blount Jr. and Sarah Vowell, Roberts offers a sociological unpacking of the sport's dubious history that is at once affectionate and cautionary.
About the Author
Diane Roberts is a contributor to NPR, the Guardian, and the Oxford American, among many other publications. She is the author of three books, and her work has been anthologized in Best American Essays and Best American Food Writing. She holds a PhD from Oxford University and teaches literature and creative writing at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. and personal experiences as a faculty member at FSU and fan of the Seminoles is fantastic. I recommend this book to anyone inter By Buckeye2011 This is by far the most interesting book on college football released this year. While it incorporates many of the same overarching story lines as other works (finances - Billion Dollar Ball, race in the South - The Last Season, scandal - The System), the lens that Roberts writes through is unique and engaging. Her use of metaphors, historical and literary references, and personal experiences as a faculty member at FSU and fan of the Seminoles is fantastic. I recommend this book to anyone interested in exploring the intersection of college football, race, culture and higher education in America.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Thoughtful Consideration of Our Inner-Barbarian By MinnesotaMind I REALLY enjoyed reading this. Most college football fans I meet and speak to haven't read Foucault or are familiar with cultural studies. So reading this book by an English professor at FSU who LOVES college football while recognizes its warts was very refreshing.If anything, I was left at the end of the book if the author did TOO good a job making the case AGAINST the game! She discusses the misogyny, the aggressive Christian triumphalism, the racial issues including echoes of plantation culture, and the physical concerns of concussions. She discusses her reasons for loving college football BEFORE devoting a chapter each to these concerns. So by the end, I found myself asking....wait, "so did you READ the book you just wrote???" But, of course, that's her point. That loving college football is irrational and and even mildly irresponsible. But she can't help herself. Neither can I.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Good Title and Subject but Disappointing By John G. Barbour Even though I have given this book a less than average rating; I give Diane Roberts an A+ for getting my attention. Unlike Diane, who was born here and got the Seminole “genes”; I ended up in Tallahassee because of a job that only lasted 4 years and was lost largely because of the very culture that Diane describes. That was 11 years ago.Consequently, I do not share the love – hate relationship that she does. I also do not share her version of feminism or her distaste she seems to have for Christianity. Like most so-called liberals teaching in our universities, I wonder if she has ever seen a real Christian.Having said that, I do think she has described the heretical version connected with football pretty well. When I took the behind the scenes tour of Doak Stadium, I was just as disturbed as the Apostle Paul must have been when he visited Athens and saw the many idols ( Acts 17:16).Yes, the place is filled with statues and icons of the ‘gods” of football. She is correct. But true Christianity says, “You shall have no other gods before me” (Old Testament) and “Little children keep yourselves from idols” and “flee idolatry” (New Testament). What she describes as the “secret heart of America” and as a very Tribal thing is in reality something that keeps people from God. Football, like gladiator games for the early church, does that.Maybe she needs to see the distaste portion for football in her psyche as a sign that something is wrong and quit playing games with words.Instead of criticizing organizations like The Fellowship for Christian Athletes, she should be praising it as a positive force in an otherwise very barbarous, brutal, sexist, retrograde, and racist culture that mistakes an aggressive fake Christian triumphalism complete with sexy cheerleaders singing “Just a Closer Walk with Me”, for the real McCoy.
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