Commodified and criminalized
Subtitle: new racism and African Americans in contemporary sports
By: edited by David J. Leonard and C. Richard King
Series: Perspectives on a multiracial America series; Perspectives on a multiracial America series
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781442206779; 9781442206793
Subjects: Racism in sports; Race relations; Discrimination in sports; African American athletes
Description: Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white racial frames. Contributors discuss athletes ranging from Tiger Woods and Serena Williams to Freddy Adu and Shani Davis. Through dynamic case studies, Commodified and Criminalized unpacks the conversation between black athletes and colorblind discourse, while challenging the assumptions of contemporary sports culture. The contributors in this provocative collection push the conversation beyond the playing field and beyond the racial landscape of sports culture to explore the connections between sports representations and a broader history of racialized violence. --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: America's new son: Tiger Woods and America's multiculturalism / C.L. Cole, David L. Andrews; title: Sister Act VI: Venus and Serena Williams at Indian Wells: "sincere fictions" and white racism / Nancy E. Spencer; title: Ghettocentrism and the essentialized black male athlete / David L. Andrews, Ronald L. Mower, Michael L. Silk; title: Why can't Kobe pass (the ball)? Race and the NBA in an age of neoliberalism / Anoop Mirpuri; title: One nation under a hoop: race, meritocracy, and messiahs in the NBA / Lisa Guerrero; title: Much Adu about nothing? Freddy Adu and neoliberal racism in new millennium America / Kyle W. Kusz; title: Me and Bonnie Blair: Shani Davis, racial myths, and the reiteration of the facts of blackness / C. Richard King; title: The Dennis Rodman of hockey: Ray Emery and the policing of blackness in the Great White North / Stacy L. Lorenz, Rod Murray; title: Contesting the closet: Sheryl Swoopes, racialized sexuality, and media culture / Samantha King; title: "Life with no hoop": Black Pride, state power / Jared Sexton.