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Tracie Canada
@traciecanada.bsky.social
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anthropologist of race and sport | ambivalent college football fan | assistant professor | she/her

www.traciecanada.com
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Are you in New Orleans for AAA?

Come to my last book event of the year, where brilliant colleagues have generously agreed to discuss my @ucpress.bsky.social book. Huge thanks to Lee D. Baker, Adia Benton, Chelsey R. Carter, Laurence Ralph, and Todne Thomas!

See you Sunday! 😊

#ABAxTA_NOLA
November 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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I’m honored that the work I do writing for and communicating with multiple audiences has been recognized with an honorable mention for the GAD New Directions Award!

This is special to me because it recognizes a critical element of my scholarship that is often downplayed in academia
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Will you be at the Boston Book Festival today? Come see me at 2pm! I’ll be on a great panel about sports, rivalry, and culture.

More details here: sched.co/27cJa

#BBF2025
October 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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It’s been a busy and fun semester, traveling around to talk about “Tackling the Everyday” (@ucpress.bsky.social), and I’m not done yet 🤓🤓
October 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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The best part was getting to shout out friends who are also writing books that fall under the umbrella of sports studies, like @doclb2.bsky.social, @courtmcox.bsky.social, and @amirarose.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Check out my interview with @blackagendareport.bsky.social, where I got to describe my @ucpress.bsky.social book, connect it to what’s currently happening in college sports, and pitch the idea of un-learning the “football team as family” and “student-athlete” narratives
September 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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And the traveling begins!

Today I join History & Sociology at GA Tech to kick off their fall 25 Speaker Series. Looking forward to talking to grad students, learning about their Sports, Society, and Tech Program, and discussing my book.

Thanks to their organizing committee for the generous invite!
September 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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NC friends, I have a local event soon!

If you’d like to learn more about my @ucpress.bsky.social book and get a copy signed, join me on Tuesday, Sept 16 at 6pm at Golden Fig Books in CARRBORO

I’ll be in convo with author and documentary producer Javier Wallace

Link below. Come see us!!
September 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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A new semester means new events!

Looking forward to joining @profsuddler.bsky.social in Atlanta in a couple weeks to talk about my book. Thanks to @acappellabooks.bsky.social and the Auburn Avenue Research Library for sponsoring!

If you’re in town, I’d love to see you on September 9 at 6:30pm 📚📖
Flyer for event at the Auburn Avenue Research Library in Atlanta on September 9 at 6:30pm. Event features Tracie Canada and Carl Suddler.
August 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The best possible response to my work. Thanks to Yussuf Khan and First and Pen for taking the time to chat and review my book!

firstandpen.com/tackling-the...
“After reading her book, I can promise you that you will develop an entirely new perspective on college football and the Black players who play it.”
July 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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“During a meeting on May 22, the trustees approved 18 new tenure cases, promotions, and appts. But the list only included faculty from the schools of Medicine, Public Health, Pharmacy, and Nursing.”

www.theassemblync.com/education/higher-education/unc-chapel-hill-delayed-tenure-votes-this-spring/
May 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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This Mother’s Day, I’m honored to write for Essence about the ways that Black football moms are essential to the sport, but often overlooked for their contributions

Link below!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the football moms and to those who inspire and care for me daily 🌷🌷
May 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I brought the nice weather with me to New Haven to talk about my book ☀️☀️

I really enjoyed being in community with other anthros about my work. Ashley of the @leithlab.bsky.social was a great host and thanks to her diligent organizing, I had a wonderful visit!
April 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Thanks to my agent, aka my mom, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social knows my name and has my book 😍😍

Check mom out, casually chatting her up

This also means that I’m now on Instagram, so help me catch up on 15 years of social media and connect with me there 🙃

www.instagram.com/reel/DIZ1h5G...
April 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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on the road again, this time to new haven

looking forward to joining folks in yale’s department of anthropology tomorrow for a conversation about my book

excited to learn what grad students in my own discipline picked up on!
Flyer announcing Canada’s talk with the Ethnography and Social Theory Colloqium in Yale Anthropology. April 14 at 3:30 in 10 Sachem St
April 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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this week!

if you're attending @appliedanthro.bsky.social's #SfAA2025 in portland, come check out my #SANA book panel on friday morning

i'm thrilled to be joined by five brilliant colleagues and to learn how they read my work. hope to see you there!

#SfAA #anthropology #appliedanthropology
A flyer announcing an "Author Meets Readers" panel at the SfAA Annual Meeting in Portland on March 28 at 9am. Includes photos of contributors: Tracie Canada, Myeshia Babers, Chelsey R. Carter, Lexi Holloway, Maurice Rippel, and Pyar Seth
March 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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i'm in the bay and happy to join @heavyredaction.bsky.social today on san francisco state's campus to think about my new book through a medical anthropology lens

really looking forward to learning how students responded to the work

#AcademicSky #anthropology
Event announcement flyer - Tracie Canada at San Francisco State on Monday 3/17 at 2pm
March 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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in this convo about the current state of elite colleges, i'd listen to the black woman academic who also happens to be a sociologist of higher education

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...
Cottom: I have as many frustrations about how students and academia has changed. It happens as you age and students continue to be young. I ask myself if they are more progressive or if I have gotten older? Healy: What’s the answer? Cottom: Usually it’s the latter. I think we overstate the rampant ideological uniformity in higher education. We take political identification as ideological destiny. There aren’t droves of raging Marxists yelling people down on the college campuses where I spend a lot of my time. And every college campus I am aware of has an economics department or a science department that teaches that Western civilization is the gold standard. Students may not be exposed to the type of political conservatism some pundits prefer. But they have a lot of opportunities to learn from people who disagree with each other.
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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a virtual book event tonight!

i’m so excited about this partnership with @kindredbookshop.bsky.social, a black feminist digital bookshop and marketplace ❤️

join me and Matlhabeli, a brilliant CA grad student, for a convo about care, kinship, and black feminist analysis

register below
Flyer for a virtual book talk conversation between Tracie Canada and Matlhabeli Molaoli on March 11 at 7pm
March 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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‘Tackling the Everyday' is available as an audiobook and it's currently the #1 new release for books about football!

honored to hear a black woman narrate my words and bring these stories to life

i’m listening along like i don’t know what happens next 🤦🏽‍♀️
Graphic showing Tackling the Everyday for sale as an audio book and its status as #1 new release in football books
March 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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UVA, my alma mater, showing out in a way that is disappointing but not entirely surprising

this is Thomas Jefferson's university, after all
… I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind. It is not against experience to suppose, that different species of the same genus, or varieties of the same species, may possess different qualifications. Will not a lover of natural history then, one who views the gradations in all the races of animals with the eye of philosophy, excuse an effort to keep those in the department of man as distinct as nature has formed them? This unfortunate difference of color, and perhaps of faculty, is a powerful obstacle to the emancipation of these people. Many of their advocates, while they wish to vindicate the liberty of human nature, are anxious also to preserve its dignity and beauty. Some of these, embarrassed by the question `What further is to be done with them?’ Join themselves in opposition with those who are actuated by sordid avarice only. Among the Romans emancipation required but one effort. The slave, when made free, might mix with, without staining the blood of his master. But with us a second is necessary, unknown to history. When freed, he is to be removed beyond the reach of mixture. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (Richmond: 1853), 149-152, 155.
March 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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10/10 would recommend inviting a former student to chat with you about your book

my convo with DeWayne Carter at @epiloguebooks.bsky.social ranged from balancing school and football, to dealing with strenuous work outs, to recognizing teammates and family who helped him thru it all

what a treat!
March 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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“One strange feature of Blackness is how often it is treated as static. Like Black just is as it will ever be. But displaced and misnamed people are ever evolving out of necessity.

We the people who are darker than blue remain under construction.” 💙💙

- @imaniperry.bsky.social
Cover of Imani Perry’s “Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People,” which includes a painting by Titus Kaphar
March 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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so very excited that my former student and rising NFL star DeWayne Carter will join me for my first local book event at @epiloguebooks.bsky.social!

come see two @duke-university.bsky.social alums for a convo about the experiences of college football players

March 3 at 6pm (link below)
Event announcement: Dr. Tracie Canada in Conversation with NFL Player DeWayne Carter. Epilogue Books in Chapel Hill on March 3 at 6pm
February 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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today is the day! "Tackling the Everyday" is officially out in the world!

only a few are pictured here, but i'm so thankful to the many thinkers and writers who inspired me during this process ✨✨

if you're so inclined to buy (link below), please post, read, share, request, etc!
Canada's "Tackling the Everyday," a predominantly green book, is in the foreground. Behind is a stack of 10 books: Hartman's "Lose Your Mother," Bissinger's "Friday Night Lights," Mariner's "Contingent Kinship," Nash's "Birthing Black Mothers," Sharpe's "In the Wake," Uperesa's "Gridiron Capital," Laymon's "Heavy," Sheppard's "Sporting Blackness," Ralph's "Renegade Dreams," and Browne's "Dark Matters."
February 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM