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Panopticonics: The Control and Surveillance of Black Female Athletes in a Collegiate Athletic Program
Author(s) -
Foster Kevin Michael
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.2003.34.3.300
Subject(s) - athletes , black male , elite , elite athletes , autonomy , control (management) , college athletics , athletic training , gender studies , medical education , psychology , political science , sociology , physical therapy , management , medicine , law , economics , politics
This article analyzes black female student athletes' participation in an elite collegiate athletic program and shows how the program maximizes black female participants' athletic and academic potential through surveillance, control, and discipline. The program instills in black female athletes a model of womanhood whereby they come to expect and achieve academic and athletic success, but does so at the expense of their autonomy and freedom from surveillance. Ultimately, this analysis shows the promise and peril of panopticonics as educational technology.