| Beyond the Cheers: Race as Spectacle in College Sport Contributor(s): King, C. Richard (Author), Springwood, Charles Fruehling (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791450058 ISBN-13: 9780791450055 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - Sports & Recreation |
| Dewey: 796.043 |
| LCCN: 00054797 |
| Series: Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.4" W x 9.3" (0.90 lbs) 214 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Focusing on half-time performances, commercialized stagings, media coverage, public panics, and political protests, Beyond the Cheers offers an ethnography, history, and social critique of racial spectacles in college sport. King and Springwood argue that collegiate revenue producing sports are created as a spectacle, driven by a range of contradictory meanings and exploitative practices. While Native Americans are viewed largely as empty or distorted images and African Americans are seen as both shining stars and 'troubled delinquents, ' White Americans remain constant as spectators, coaches, administrators, journalists, and athletes, producing and consuming college sport, performing and policing, but seemingly unmarked as racial subjects. In consuming these spectacles, American sports fans learn to embrace inflated, contradictory, and distorted renderings of racial difference and the history of race relations in America. |