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

ISBN-13: 9780820472515 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 214 str.

McCarthy, Cameron

Opis

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."

O autorze

The Author: Kyle W. Kusz is Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. He earned his Ph.D. in the socio-cultural study of sport and physical activity, as well as a graduate minor in cultural studies and interpretive research, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has written on the cultural politics of sport formations, athlete-celebrities, and sport films.