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Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports (Perspectives on a Multiracial America)

By David J. Leonard , C. Richard King

Book information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year
2011
ISBN
1442206772, 9781442206779, 9781442206793
LCC
GV706.32 .C66 2011
Open Library ID
OL25041496M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1002 kB (1026006 bytes)
Series
Perspectives on a Multiracial America
Pages
273\273
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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 dominant white racial frames. Contributors discuss athletes ranging from Tiger Woods and Serena Williams to Freddy Adu and Shani Davis.Through dynamic case studies, Commodified and Criminalized unpacks the conversation between black athletes and colorblind discourse, while challenging the assumptions of contemporary sports culture. The contributors in this provocative collection push the conversation beyond the playing field and beyond the racial landscape of sports culture to explore the connections between sports representations and a broader history of racialized violence.

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