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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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the revolt of the white (male) athlete will be televised
- Image is not everything : Andre Agassi, Generation X, and white masculinity
- The new, new Andre Agassi : the cultural politics of white male redemption
- Extreme America : interrogating the racial and gender politics of media narratives about extreme sports
- 'I want to be the minority' : the politics of youthful white masculinities in American sport and popular culture in 1990s America
- White boyz in the hood : examining the cultural politics of Dogtown and Z Boys
- Lance America : interrogating the politics of the national fantasy of Lance Armstrong
- Conclusion : notes on some white guys in post-9/11 America.