Sport, spectacle, and NASCAR nation
Subtitle: consumption and the cultural politics of neoliberalism
By: Joshua I. Newman, Michael D. Giardina
Contributors: Giardina, Michael D., 1976-
Series: Education, politics and public life
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780230115194
Subjects: EDUCATION / General; EDUCATION / Driver Education; Stock car racing; EDUCATION / Non-Formal Education; NASCAR (Association)
Description: "Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon of the North American sporting popular. While most contributions to the public discourse gloss over NASCAR's exclusively white racial identity politics, its underlying patriarchal gender politics, its overtly conservative political commitment, its hyper-Christian orthodoxy, and its omnipresent commercialism, this book connects the dots and critically analyzes the problematic nature of this non-natural, strategically-orchestrated sporting spectacle"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Why NASCAR? Why Now? * Sporting Automobility * The Road and Serfdom * Consuming Stockcar Bodies * The "Southernization" of Sporting America * Racing for Jesus * Militarizing NASCAR Nation * The Limits to NASCAR Nation * Coda: On Recession and Secession.