Revolt of the White Athlete: Race, Media and the Emergence of Extreme Athletes in AmericaPeter Lang, 2007 - 214 pages 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. |
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Andre Agassi Generation | 17 |
The Cultural Politics | 43 |
Interrogating the Racial and Gender Politics | 63 |
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