Commodified and criminalized : new racism and African Americans in contemporary sports

Commodified and criminalized : new racism and African Americans in contemporary sports / edited by David J. Leonard and C. Richard King.

"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 domin...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Leonard, David J. (David Jason), 1973-, King, C. Richard, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011.
Series:Perspectives on a multiracial America series.
Subjects:
Racism in sports > United States.
Discrimination in sports > United States.
African American athletes.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
African American athletes
Discrimination in sports
Race relations
Racism in sports
United States > Race relations.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : celebrities, commodities, and criminals : African American athletes and the racial politics of culture / David J. Leonard and C. Richard King
  • America's new son : Tiger Woods and America's multiculturalism / C. L. Cole and David L. Andrews
  • Sister act VI : Venus and Serena Williams at Indian Wells : "sincere fictions" and white racism / Nancy E. Spencer
  • Ghettocentrism and the essentialized Black male athlete / David L. Andrews, Ronald L. Mower, and Michael L. Silk
  • Why can't Kobe pass (the ball)? Race and the NBA in an age of neoliberalism / Anoop Mirpuri
  • One nation under a hoop : race, meritocracy, and messiahs in the NBA / Lisa Guerrero
  • Much Adu about nothing? Freddy Adu and neoliberal racism in new millennium America / Kyle W. Kusz
  • Me and Bonnie Blair : Shani Davis, racial myths, and the reiteration of the facts of blackness / C. Richard King
  • The Dennis Rodman of hockey : Ray Emery and the policing of blackness in the great white north / Stacy L. Lorenz and Rod Murray
  • Contesting the closet : Sheryl Swoopes, racialized sexuality, and media culture / Samantha King
  • "Life with no hoop" : Black pride , state power / Jared Sexton
  • Postscript : America's son? Tiger Woods as commodification and criminalization / David L. Andrews, C. Richard King, and David J. Leonard.

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