Revolt of the white athlete : race, media and the emergence of extreme athletes in America /
"Informed by whiteness studies, Kyle Kusz's book examines the role that sport discourses play in reproducing a central, normative, and superior position for white masculinity in American culture and society at the turn of the twenty-first century. Specifically, Kusz illuminates how the Ame...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
©2007.
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| Series: | Intersections in communications and culture ;
v. 14. |
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| Summary: | "Informed by whiteness studies, Kyle Kusz's book examines the role that sport discourses play in reproducing a central, normative, and superior position for white masculinity in American culture and society at the turn of the twenty-first century. Specifically, Kusz illuminates how the American sports media -- through cover stories detailing the so-called disappearance of the white (male) athlete in American sports or the rise of extreme sports -- produced a set of contradictory images of white masculinity as victimized and unprivileged, yet superior and squarely centered in American culture, that shaped and were shaped by a broader cultural struggle to re-secure white male privilege"--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 214 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0820472514 9780820472515 |
| ISSN: | 1528-610X ; |