Description: Wide-ranging essays on cheerleading, from the pep rally to the NFL sidelines to All-Star competitions, and why it matters.
Review Quotes:
When we set out to make Cheer, I had no idea how deep cheerleading's roots ran--or how much I didn't know. Natalie Adams changed that. Her scholarship illuminates cheerleading as a cultural mirror, reflecting our country's evolving ideas about gender, race, and athleticism. The Cheer Reader is the book the sport has always deserved: rigorous, surprising, and full of heart. If watching Cheer made you love cheerleaders, reading this book will make you understand them.
--Greg Whiteley, creator of Netflix's Cheer and America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders