Youth culture and sport
Subtitle: identity, power, and politics
By: edited by Michael D. Giardina, Michele K. Donnelly
Contributors: Giardina, Michael D., 1976-; Donnelly, Michele K
Series: Critical youth studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780415955805; 9780415955812
Subjects: Sports -- Social aspects; Sports -- Social aspects -- United States; Sports for children -- Social aspects -- United States; Youth -- United States -- Social conditions; Subculture -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Michael D. Giardina and Michele K. Donnelly; title: The Little League World Series : spectacle of youthful innocence or specter of the American new right? / Ryan White, Michael L. Silk, and David L. Andrews; title: Screening race in America : sport, cinema, and the politics of urban youth culture / Michael D. Giardina and Cameron R. McCarthy; title: Bounding American empire : sport, sex and politics / C.L. Cole; title: Exploiting a new generation : corporate branding and the co-optation of action sport / Robert E. Rinehart; title: To the white extreme in the mainstream : manhood, and white youth culture in a virtual sports world / David J. Leonard; title: "You can break so many more rules" : the identity work and play of becoming skater girls / Deirdre M. Kelly, Shauna Pomerantz, and Dawn H. Currie; title: "Take the slam and get back up" : hardcore candy and the politics of representation in girl's and women's skateboarding and snowboarding on television / Michele K. Donnelly; title: Hostile environments : anti-Indian imagery, racial pedagogies, and youth sport cultures / C. Richard King; title: Culture, colonialism, and competition : youth sport culture in Canada's north / Audrey R. Giles and Ava C. Baker; title: From babies to ballers : girl's youth basketball and the re-becoming of U.S. motherhood / Jennifer L. Metz; title: Coda: Youth sport in the shadows of American vertigo / Michael D. Giardina