Kirsten Hextrum
Biographic Data
| ID | 292949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsten Hextrum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsten |
| FAMILY NAME | Hextrum |
| SIGNATURE | HEXTRUM K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1683-6609 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Global recruitment fields: International college athletes, regulatory bodies, and opportunities to play Division I intercollegiate athletics in the U.S
International college athletes (ICAs) are a growing portion of U.S. higher education undergraduate students. Those coming to the U.S. to play a sport and earn their degree face myriad regulatory agencies and restrictive policies that uniquely structure their path to higher education. Yet little is known about how ICAs persist through the extensive U.S. immigration laws, NCAA requirements, and institutional standards, all of which create barriers …
Boys Always Swim Faster, Jump Farther, Run Faster”: Struggling Toward Women-Centered Sport Cultures in Separate and Unequal College Athletic Departments
Saving Women’s Sports? The Ideological Underpinnings of U.S. Public Opinions About Trans* Athlete Rights and Sex Testing, Before Widespread Politicization
This study uses National Sports and Society Survey ( N = 3,993) data to further investigate U.S. public opinions about transgender athletes’ rights, rights for athletes with varied sex characteristics, and sex testing. We focus on the additional implications of wanting to support, promote, and watch female athletes; traditional views of women’s idealized physical appearances; and homophobia for adults’ opinions about these issues. Findings reveal…
The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024
The privilege to play: Race, gender, & SES advantages in boys’ high school athletic opportunities
In this study, with an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design, we considered the components and implications of a habitus that (re)produces racial/ethnic, social class, and gender differences in US interscholastic sport participation. We drew from independently collected qualitative (N = 19 men and 47 total college athletes) and quantitative (N = 4,097 high school boys) data and noted and investigated dynamic links between individual choices…
The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism that Never Was
The 2020s mark a momentous time in college athletics. College athlete activism highlighting racial exploitation in sport and beyond punctuated the pandemic; legal efforts granted athletes modest rights to their name, image, and likeness; and colleges chased ever-more lucrative football television deals, collapsing regional alliances and creating nationwide mega-conferences. For those who find these changes head-spinning, this is the book for you.…
Inequalities in Girls’ High School Sports Participation: How Social Class, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender Route Opportunities to Play and Persist in Athletics
High school athletics are understudied sites for social and educational stratification. Participation can offer mental and physical health benefits, improved student retention and graduation rates, the encouragement of pro-social behaviors, resume building, and enhanced social statuses. Despite legal prohibitions against race and gender discrimination in schools, opportunities to play and persist in interscholastic athletics may reflect and ampli…
College overmatch: Privilege and the rules of the athletic admissions game
Applying Bordieuan cultural reproduction theory to life-history interviews with 47 college athletes, this study examines the field of athletic admissions as a prominent place for class conflicts. Utilizing interview data and document analysis, I examine how parents from white suburban communities learn the rules of the game of athletic admissions and use their capital to advantage their offspring in navigating the field. Growing up in affluent co…
Ideology of Athletic Merit: Transmission of Privilege in College Athlete Admissions
Researchers critique athletic admissions, claiming that lower academic standards for athletes lead to disengagement, retention issues, and mission-drift. Yet few studies scrutinize the athletic standards utilized. Despite the concentration of Black men in football and basketball, overall, white and middle-class athletes receive the greatest admission advantages suggesting athletic merit aligns with privilege. Drawing on 47 life-history interviews…
Title IX at 50: Legitimating state domination of women's sport
At Title IX's 50th anniversary we address the contradictions embedded in liberal state reform. This anniversary provides a juncture to consider the limitations of seeking gender liberation through the state. While US law is often credited with revolutionizing athletic access for girls and women, we trace how the state stymied greater transformation efforts. Using poststructuralist and Black feminist state critiques, we show how Title IX utilized …
White Property Interests in College Athletic Admissions
Dominant cultural narratives position college sports as engines of racial integration and upward mobility. Previous studies examined the chances for low-income men of color becoming athletes in two sports: men's football and basketball. While highly visible, these athletes represent the minority of participants. The majority of college athletes are White and middle class. In this conceptual article, I apply Cheryl Harris' whiteness as property fr…
Masculinist State Protection: Safety Concerns Produce Gender Disparities in University Housing Policies
Individualizing conflict: How ideology enables college athletes’ educational compromises
This article explores how the ideology of individualism sustains a conflictual school/sport intercollegiate system within the neoliberalism university [Giroux, Henry A. 2014. Neoliberalism’s War Against Higher Education. Chicago: Haymarket Press]. Life-history interview with 47 U.S. collegiate athletes reveal how institutional conditions cultivated an individualistic subjectivity [Althusser, Louis. 1971. Lenin and Philosophy and Others Essays. Ne…
Segregation, innocence, and protection: The institutional conditions that maintain whiteness in college sports
Bigger, faster, stronger: How racist and sexist ideologies persist in college sports
US college sports are prime cultural sites of racist and sexist ideological production [Coakley, Jay. 2015. Sport in Society: Issues and Controversies. 11th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; Eitzen, Stanley D. 2016. Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport. 5th ed. Landham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield]. Much of the research into the ideological production in college athletics centres media coverage of two men’s commercialized sports (Amer…
Amateurism revisited: How U.S. college athletic recruitment favors middle-class athletes
This study uses Bourdieusian (1977, 1978, 2011) approaches to reproduction to position athletic bureaucracies as legitimating institutions that convert capital. I examine how the cultural production of amateurism in U.S. college sports facilitates class reproduction by enabling a direct conversion between accrued economic, social, and physical capitals for cultural capital. I use 47 life-history interviews with college athletes to explore how col…
Bigger, faster, stronger: How racist and sexist ideologies persist in college sports
US college sports are prime cultural sites of racist and sexist ideological production [Coakley, Jay. 2015. Sport in Society: Issues and Controversies. 11th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; Eitzen, Stanley D. 2016. Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport. 5th ed. Landham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield]. Much of the research into the ideological production in college athletics centres media coverage of two men’s commercialized sports (Amer…
Inequalities in Girls’ High School Sports Participation: How Social Class, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender Route Opportunities to Play and Persist in Athletics
High school athletics are understudied sites for social and educational stratification. Participation can offer mental and physical health benefits, improved student retention and graduation rates, the encouragement of pro-social behaviors, resume building, and enhanced social statuses. Despite legal prohibitions against race and gender discrimination in schools, opportunities to play and persist in interscholastic athletics may reflect and ampli…
Amateurism revisited: How U.S. college athletic recruitment favors middle-class athletes
This study uses Bourdieusian (1977, 1978, 2011) approaches to reproduction to position athletic bureaucracies as legitimating institutions that convert capital. I examine how the cultural production of amateurism in U.S. college sports facilitates class reproduction by enabling a direct conversion between accrued economic, social, and physical capitals for cultural capital. I use 47 life-history interviews with college athletes to explore how col…
Segregation, innocence, and protection: The institutional conditions that maintain whiteness in college sports
White Property Interests in College Athletic Admissions
Dominant cultural narratives position college sports as engines of racial integration and upward mobility. Previous studies examined the chances for low-income men of color becoming athletes in two sports: men's football and basketball. While highly visible, these athletes represent the minority of participants. The majority of college athletes are White and middle class. In this conceptual article, I apply Cheryl Harris' whiteness as property fr…
Saving Women’s Sports? The Ideological Underpinnings of U.S. Public Opinions About Trans* Athlete Rights and Sex Testing, Before Widespread Politicization
This study uses National Sports and Society Survey ( N = 3,993) data to further investigate U.S. public opinions about transgender athletes’ rights, rights for athletes with varied sex characteristics, and sex testing. We focus on the additional implications of wanting to support, promote, and watch female athletes; traditional views of women’s idealized physical appearances; and homophobia for adults’ opinions about these issues. Findings reveal…
Title IX at 50: Legitimating state domination of women's sport
At Title IX's 50th anniversary we address the contradictions embedded in liberal state reform. This anniversary provides a juncture to consider the limitations of seeking gender liberation through the state. While US law is often credited with revolutionizing athletic access for girls and women, we trace how the state stymied greater transformation efforts. Using poststructuralist and Black feminist state critiques, we show how Title IX utilized …
Amateurism revisited: How U.S. college athletic recruitment favors middle-class athletes
This study uses Bourdieusian (1977, 1978, 2011) approaches to reproduction to position athletic bureaucracies as legitimating institutions that convert capital. I examine how the cultural production of amateurism in U.S. college sports facilitates class reproduction by enabling a direct conversion between accrued economic, social, and physical capitals for cultural capital. I use 47 life-history interviews with college athletes to explore how col…
Segregation, innocence, and protection: The institutional conditions that maintain whiteness in college sports
Bigger, faster, stronger: How racist and sexist ideologies persist in college sports
US college sports are prime cultural sites of racist and sexist ideological production [Coakley, Jay. 2015. Sport in Society: Issues and Controversies. 11th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; Eitzen, Stanley D. 2016. Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport. 5th ed. Landham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield]. Much of the research into the ideological production in college athletics centres media coverage of two men’s commercialized sports (Amer…
Individualizing conflict: How ideology enables college athletes’ educational compromises
This article explores how the ideology of individualism sustains a conflictual school/sport intercollegiate system within the neoliberalism university [Giroux, Henry A. 2014. Neoliberalism’s War Against Higher Education. Chicago: Haymarket Press]. Life-history interview with 47 U.S. collegiate athletes reveal how institutional conditions cultivated an individualistic subjectivity [Althusser, Louis. 1971. Lenin and Philosophy and Others Essays. Ne…
Masculinist State Protection: Safety Concerns Produce Gender Disparities in University Housing Policies
Title IX at 50: Legitimating state domination of women's sport
At Title IX's 50th anniversary we address the contradictions embedded in liberal state reform. This anniversary provides a juncture to consider the limitations of seeking gender liberation through the state. While US law is often credited with revolutionizing athletic access for girls and women, we trace how the state stymied greater transformation efforts. Using poststructuralist and Black feminist state critiques, we show how Title IX utilized …
White Property Interests in College Athletic Admissions
Dominant cultural narratives position college sports as engines of racial integration and upward mobility. Previous studies examined the chances for low-income men of color becoming athletes in two sports: men's football and basketball. While highly visible, these athletes represent the minority of participants. The majority of college athletes are White and middle class. In this conceptual article, I apply Cheryl Harris' whiteness as property fr…
College overmatch: Privilege and the rules of the athletic admissions game
Applying Bordieuan cultural reproduction theory to life-history interviews with 47 college athletes, this study examines the field of athletic admissions as a prominent place for class conflicts. Utilizing interview data and document analysis, I examine how parents from white suburban communities learn the rules of the game of athletic admissions and use their capital to advantage their offspring in navigating the field. Growing up in affluent co…
Ideology of Athletic Merit: Transmission of Privilege in College Athlete Admissions
Researchers critique athletic admissions, claiming that lower academic standards for athletes lead to disengagement, retention issues, and mission-drift. Yet few studies scrutinize the athletic standards utilized. Despite the concentration of Black men in football and basketball, overall, white and middle-class athletes receive the greatest admission advantages suggesting athletic merit aligns with privilege. Drawing on 47 life-history interviews…
The privilege to play: Race, gender, & SES advantages in boys’ high school athletic opportunities
In this study, with an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design, we considered the components and implications of a habitus that (re)produces racial/ethnic, social class, and gender differences in US interscholastic sport participation. We drew from independently collected qualitative (N = 19 men and 47 total college athletes) and quantitative (N = 4,097 high school boys) data and noted and investigated dynamic links between individual choices…
The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism that Never Was
The 2020s mark a momentous time in college athletics. College athlete activism highlighting racial exploitation in sport and beyond punctuated the pandemic; legal efforts granted athletes modest rights to their name, image, and likeness; and colleges chased ever-more lucrative football television deals, collapsing regional alliances and creating nationwide mega-conferences. For those who find these changes head-spinning, this is the book for you.…
Inequalities in Girls’ High School Sports Participation: How Social Class, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender Route Opportunities to Play and Persist in Athletics
High school athletics are understudied sites for social and educational stratification. Participation can offer mental and physical health benefits, improved student retention and graduation rates, the encouragement of pro-social behaviors, resume building, and enhanced social statuses. Despite legal prohibitions against race and gender discrimination in schools, opportunities to play and persist in interscholastic athletics may reflect and ampli…
Boys Always Swim Faster, Jump Farther, Run Faster”: Struggling Toward Women-Centered Sport Cultures in Separate and Unequal College Athletic Departments
Saving Women’s Sports? The Ideological Underpinnings of U.S. Public Opinions About Trans* Athlete Rights and Sex Testing, Before Widespread Politicization
This study uses National Sports and Society Survey ( N = 3,993) data to further investigate U.S. public opinions about transgender athletes’ rights, rights for athletes with varied sex characteristics, and sex testing. We focus on the additional implications of wanting to support, promote, and watch female athletes; traditional views of women’s idealized physical appearances; and homophobia for adults’ opinions about these issues. Findings reveal…
The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024
Global recruitment fields: International college athletes, regulatory bodies, and opportunities to play Division I intercollegiate athletics in the U.S
International college athletes (ICAs) are a growing portion of U.S. higher education undergraduate students. Those coming to the U.S. to play a sport and earn their degree face myriad regulatory agencies and restrictive policies that uniquely structure their path to higher education. Yet little is known about how ICAs persist through the extensive U.S. immigration laws, NCAA requirements, and institutional standards, all of which create barriers …
Sports, Gender, and Society (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (10 works) · Athletes (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Medicine (8 works)