Instant Acceleration: Living in the Fast Lane: The Cultural Identity of Speed - Hardcover

Sands, Robert R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819195847 ISBN 13: 9780819195845

Publisher: University Press of America, 1994

Synopsis

This book is about the relationship between blackness, ethnicity, and speed. It is an in-depth ethnographic and anthropological study of a population of collegiate sprinters, constructed upon a formal model of ethnic and cultural identity which sees social interaction, expressed in the order and arrangement of social identities, as a means of establishing social networks through universal or cognitive rules. This study also introduces a unique method of intensive participant-observation; to really study a population, one must actively participate, placing the researcher in the social identity of those being studied. Contents: List of Photographs; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Faces; The Ethnographic Pursuit of Speed; Cognition and Identity; Fall 1987; Winter 1988; Spring 1988; Summer 1988; The Eternal Season; Index.

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About the Author

Robert R. Sands is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819195847
• ISBN 13: 9780819195845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 150