Revolt of the White Athlete

Race, Media and the Emergence of Extreme Athletes in America

von Kyle Kusz

216 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Intersections in Communications and Culture
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• ISBN: 9780820472515
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.01.2007
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York