Reality bites
Subtitle: white masculinities, sport, and contemporary American culture
By: Kyle Kusz.
Series: Intersections in communications and culture,; v. 14
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Masculinity in sports -- United States.; Whites -- Race identity -- United States.; Mass media and sports -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : sport and the politics of whiteness in 1990s America; value: Image is not everything : Andre Agassi, Generation X, and the politics of white male redemption; value: Extreme America : interrogating the racial and gender politics of media narratives about extreme sports; value: 'I want to be the minority' : the politics of youthful white masculinities in American sport and popular culture; value: Lance America : interrogating the national fantasy of Lance Armstrong; value: White boyz in the hood : interrogating Dogtown and Z Boys; value: Conclusion : sport and whiteness politics in the new millennium.