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
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.