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Revolt of the white athlete : race, media and the emergence of extreme athletes in America
- Title
- Revolt of the white athlete : race, media and the emergence of extreme athletes in America / Kyle Kusz.
- Author
- Kusz, Kyle, 1972-
- Publication
- New York : Peter Lang, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- xii, 214 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Intersections in communications and culture, 1528-610X ; v. 14
- Uniform Title
- Intersections in communications and culture ; v. 14.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-209) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction : the revolt of the white (male) athlete will be televised -- 2. Image is not everything : Andre Agassi, Generation X, and white masculinity -- 3. The new, new Andre Agassi : the cultural politics of white male redemption -- 4. Extreme America : interrogating the racial and gender politics of media narratives about extreme sports -- 5. 'I want to be the minority' : the politics of youthful white masculinities in sport and popular culture in 1990s America -- 6. White boyz in the hood : examining the cultural politics of Dogtown and Z Boys -- 7. Lance America : interrogating the politics of the national fantasy of Lance Armstrong -- 8. Conclusion : notes on some white guys in post-9/11 America.
- ISBN
- 0820472514 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780820472515 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004011675
- OCLC
- ocm55487964
- 55487964
- SCSB-5343350
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries