Commodified and Criminalized (eBook)

New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports

C. Richard King, David J. Leonard (Herausgeber)

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2010
272 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-0679-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white racial frames. Contributors discuss athletes ranging from Tiger Woods and Serena Williams to Freddy Adu and Shani Davis.Through dynamic case studies, Commodified and Criminalized unpacks the conversation between black athletes and colorblind discourse, while challenging the assumptions of contemporary sports culture. The contributors in this provocative collection push the conversation beyond the playing field and beyond the racial landscape of sports culture to explore the connections between sports representations and a broader history of racialized violence.

Autor

David J. Leonard is associate professor of critical culture, gender, and race studies at Washington State University. C. Richard King is professor and chair of critical culture, gender, and race studies at Washington State University.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Celebrities, Commodities, and Criminals: African American Athletes and the Racial Politics of CultureChapter 1: America's New Son: Tiger Woods and America's MulticulturalismChapter 2: Sister Act VI: Venus and Serena Williams at Indian Wells: "Sincere Fictions" and White RacismChapter 3: Ghettocentrism and the Essentialized Black Male AthleteChapter 4: Why Can't Kobe Pass (the Ball)? Race and the NBA in an Age of NeoliberalismChapter 5: One Nation Under a Hoop: Race, Meritocracy, and Messiahs in the NBAChapter 6: Much Adu About Nothing? Freddy Adu and Neoliberal Racism in New Millennium AmericaChapter 7: Me and Bonnie Blair: Shani Davis, Racial Myths, and the Reiteration of the Facts of BlacknessChapter 8: The Dennis Rodman of Hockey: Ray Emery and the Policing of Blackness in the Great White NorthChapter 9: Contesting the Closet: Sheryl Swoopes, Racialized Sexuality, and Media CultureChapter 10: "Life with no hoop": Black Pride, State PowerPostscript: American's Son? Tiger Woods as Commodification and CriminalizationIndexContributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.12.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Perspectives on a Multiracial America
• Co-Autor: David L. Andrews, Jared Sexton, Michael L. Silk, Nancy E. Spencer, C.L Cole, Lisa Guerrero, Samantha King, Kyle W. Kusz, Stacy L. Lorenz, Anoop Mirpuri, Ronald L. Mower, Rod Murray
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-0679-9 / 1442206799
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-0679-3 / 9781442206793