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Happiness Vampire; Assist Prof of Soc @UNB; social theory + sport; words @guardian etc; @EndofSportPod; cis; he/him; co-writing *The End of College Football*

6 books
Book Cover for: Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line, Paul Gilroy

Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line

Paul Gilroy
Nathan Kalman-Lamb (cis) (@nkalamb.bsky.social)Nathan Kalman-Lamb (cis) (@nkalamb.bsky.social)

the chop has become a form of what Paul Gilroy in *Against Race* calls "logo-solidarity": spectacular icons that advance fascism by silencing dissent and cohering irrational forms of national identity

Paperback, 2002

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon
Nathan Kalman-Lamb (cis) (@nkalamb.bsky.social)Nathan Kalman-Lamb (cis) (@nkalamb.bsky.social)

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 2004, p. 137. https://t.co/lZxHAtEpQG

Paperback, 2021

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA, Theresa Runstedtler

Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA

Theresa Runstedtler
Nathan Kalman-Lamb (cis) (@nkalamb.bsky.social)Nathan Kalman-Lamb (cis) (@nkalamb.bsky.social)

this is straight 🔥 from @DrTRunstedtler in the intro to her new book *Black Ball* https://t.co/yrTyrj8UHy

Hardcover, 2023

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport, Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport

Nathan Kalman-Lamb
Nathan Kalman-Lamb (cis) (@nkalamb.bsky.social)Nathan Kalman-Lamb (cis) (@nkalamb.bsky.social)

Here’s what a former enforcer told me it felt like to have to fight. He also told me he would sit at his cottage during the summer dreading the fights ahead in the coming NHL season. [From *Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport*] https://t.co/1CzQnpv5i7

Paperback, 2018

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order, Stuart Hall

Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order

Stuart Hall
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Stuart Hall et al. on racial profiling as instrument of internal colonization: “Nothing makes one aware of living in a ‘colony’ so much as the permanent presence of an ‘occupying force.’” *Policing the Crisis*, p. 347

Paperback, 2013

$59.95$34.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Football, David Porter

Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Football

David Porter
Nathan Kalman-Lamb (cis) (@nkalamb.bsky.social)Nathan Kalman-Lamb (cis) (@nkalamb.bsky.social)

I don’t have inside information about Iowa, but I do have an understanding of how college football works and that gives me tremendous solidarity for David Porter. Wish I could say the same for others in that community.

Hardcover, 1987

$83.00$58.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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