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Commodified and Criminalized
New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports
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2010
Summary
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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Bibliographic data
Edition
1/2010
Copyright Year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-0677-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-0679-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
262
Product Type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction. Celebrities, Commodities, and Criminals: African American Athletes and the Racial Politics of Culture No access Pages 1 - 22
Chapter 1. America’s New Son: Tiger Woods and America’s Multiculturalism No access Pages 23 - 40
Chapter 2. Sister Act VI: Venus and Serena Williams at Indian Wells: “Sincere Fictions” and White Racism No access Pages 41 - 68
Chapter 3. Ghettocentrism and the Essentialized Black Male Athlete No access Pages 69 - 94
Chapter 4. Why Can’t Kobe Pass (the Ball)? Race and the NBA in an Age of Neoliberalism No access Pages 95 - 120
Chapter 5. One Nation under a Hoop: Race, Meritocracy, and Messiahs in the NBA No access Pages 121 - 146
Chapter 6. Much Adu about Nothing? Freddy Adu and Neoliberal Racism in New Millennium America No access Pages 147 - 164
Chapter 7. Me and Bonnie Blair: Shani Davis, Racial Myths, and the Reiteration of the Facts of Blackness No access Pages 165 - 182
Chapter 8. The Dennis Rodman of Hockey: Ray Emery and the Policing of Blackness in the Great White North No access Pages 183 - 202
Chapter 9. Contesting the Closet:Sheryl Swoopes, Racialized Sexuality, and Media Culture No access Pages 203 - 222
Chapter 10. “Life with no hoop”: Black Pride, State Power No access Pages 223 - 248
Postscript. America’s Son? Tiger Woods as Commodification and Criminalization No access Pages 249 - 254
