Revolt of the White Athlete: Race, Media and the Emergence of Extreme Athletes in America

Revolt of the White Athlete: Race, Media and the Emergence of Extreme Athletes in America Informed by whiteness studies, Kyle Kusz's groundbreaking 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. Autor: Kyle W. Kusz Wydawnictwo: Peter Lang Publishing Inc Rok wydania: 2007 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 214 Wymiary: 15.4 x 22.8 x 1.3 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9780820472515