| Revolt of the White Athlete: Race, Media and the Emergence of Extreme Athletes in America Contributor(s): McCarthy, Cameron (Editor), Valdivia, Angharad N. (Editor), Kusz, Kyle (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820472514 ISBN-13: 9780820472515 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $41.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation - Social Science | Sociology - General - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & Humanities |
| Dewey: 796.081 |
| LCCN: 2004011675 |
| Series: Intersections in Communications and Culture, |
| Physical Information: 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
