Revolt of the White Athlete: Race, Media and the Emergence of Extreme Athletes in America (Intersections in Communications and Culture)
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (735 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820472514 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 214 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Wouldn't 'Revolting Whites' be a better title? Tom in Chapel Hill Apparently if one is "informed" enough by "Whiteness Studies" it is revealed that Rush Limbaugh, skateboarders, Lance Armstrong, Limp Bizket, Larry The Cable Guy, Andre Agassi, Green Day, white paralyzed rugby players and an endless list of other undeserving privileged white males (i.e. all of them) are engaged in a "conservative" and "reactionary" social and cultural counter revolution to "reproduce and extend the power and privileges of whites and men not only in sport, but in American culture and society."I was left wondering just what a white guy could possibly do that would not be seen as problematic by Kyle Kusz. "Old moneyed white. maybe buy it second-hand because the author seems like a jerk But otherwise, it's a cool introduction to Extreme Sports and the interesting people who do it, so one can then go watch vids about them, or whatever.
Kusz is Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. He has written on the cultural politics of sport formations, athlete-celebrities, and sport films. . He earned his Ph.D. in the socio-cultural study of sport and physical activity, as well as a graduate minor in cultural studies and interpretive research, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. About the Author The Author: Kyle W
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.. 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
He has written on the cultural politics of sport formations, athlete-celebrities, and sport films. Kusz is Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. in the socio-cultural study of sport and physical activity, as well as a graduate minor in cultural studies and interpretive research, from