Revolt of the White Athlete - Race, Media and the Emergence of Extreme Athletes in America

Informed by whiteness studies, Kyle Kusz's groundbreaking book examines the role that sport discourses play in reproducing a central, normative, and superior position for white masculinity in American culture and society at the turn of the twenty-first century. Specifically, Kusz illuminates how the American sports media - through cover stories detailing the so-called disappearance of the white (male) athlete in American sports or the rise of extreme sports - produced a set of contradictory images of white masculinity as victimized and unprivileged, yet superior and squarely centered in American culture, that shaped and were shaped by a broader cultural struggle to re-secure white male privilege.

About the author

The Author: Kyle W. Kusz is Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. He earned his Ph.D. in the socio-cultural study of sport and physical activity, as well as a graduate minor in cultural studies and interpretive research, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has written on the cultural politics of sport formations, athlete-celebrities, and sport films.

Product details

• Authors: Kyle Kusz
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2007
• EAN: 9780820472515
• ISBN: 978-0-8204-7251-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 12 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 330 g
• Series: Intersections in Communications and Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous