Revolt of the White Athlete

Race, Media and the Emergence of Extreme Athletes in America

Kyle W. Kusz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

214 Seiten

2007
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
9780820472515 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Reihe/Serie	Intersections in Communications and Culture ; 14
	Intersections in Communications and Culture ; 14
	Intersections in Communications and Culture ; 14
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	330 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9780820472515 / 9780820472515
Zustand	Neuware