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"The issue of Native American mascots in sports raises passions but also a raft of often-unasked questions. Which voices get a hearing in an argument? What meanings do we ascribe to mascots? Who do these Indians and warriors really represent? Andrew C. Billings and Jason Edward Black go beyond the media bluster to reassess the mascot controversy. Their multi-dimensional study delves into the textual, visual, and ritualistic and performative aspects of sports mascots. Their original research, meanwhile, surveys sports fans themselves on their thoughts when a specific mascot faces censure. The result is a book that merges critical-cultural analysis with qualitative data to offer an innovative approach to understanding the camps and fault lines on each side of the issue, the stakes in mascot debates, whether common ground can exist and, if so, how we might find it"--

SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports. --- SPORTS & RECREATION / History. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies. --- Indians in popular culture --- Sports spectators --- Sports team mascots --- Indians as mascots. --- Indian mascots --- Mascots --- Team mascots --- Spectators, Sports --- Sports --- Sports fans --- Audiences --- Fans (Persons) --- Popular culture --- Attitudes. --- Social aspects --- Spectators

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This book examines the reception of rhetoric and the rhetoric of reception. By considering salient rhetorical traits of rhetorical utterances and texts seen in context, and relating this to different kinds of reception and/or audience use and negotiation, the authors explore the connections between rhetoric and reception. In our time, new media and new forms of communication make it harder to distinguish between speaker and audience. The active involvement of users and audiences is more important than ever before. This project is based on the premise that rhetorical research should reconsider the understanding, conceptualization and examination of the rhetorical audience. From mostly understanding audiences as theoretical constructions that are examined textually and speculatively, the contributors give more attention to empirical explorations of actual audiences and users. The book will provide readers with new knowledge on the workings of rhetoric as well as illustrative and guiding examples of new methods of rhetorical studies.

Political science. --- Communication. --- Political communication. --- Political sociology. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- Political Communication. --- Media and Communication. --- Political Sociology. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Political communication --- Sociological aspects --- Rhetoric. --- Audiences --- Attitudes. --- Audiences, Communication --- Communication audiences --- Communication --- Spectators --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Social aspects --- Rhetoric