Playing While White

Privilege and Power on and off the Field

David J. Leonard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2017
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-74188-8 (ISBN)

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Playing While White argues that whiteness matters in sports culture, both on and off the field. Offering critical analysis of athletic stars such as Johnny Manziel, Marshall Henderson, Jordan Spieth, Lance Armstrong, Josh Hamilton, as well as the predominantly white cultures of NASCAR and extreme sports, David Leonard identifies how whiteness is central to the commodification of athletes and the sports they play.

Leonard demonstrates that sporting cultures are a key site in the trafficking of racial ideas, narratives, and ideologies. He identifies how white athletes are frequently characterized as intelligent leaders who are presumed innocent of the kinds of transgressions black athletes are often pathologized for. With an analysis of the racial dynamics of sports traditions as varied as football, cycling, hockey, baseball, tennis, snowboarding, and soccer, as well as the reception and media portrayals of specific white athletes, Leonard examines how and why whiteness matters within sports and what that tells us about race in the twenty-first century United States.

David J. Leonard is a professor at Washington State University. He is the author of After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness and coeditor of Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports. Follow him on Twitter at @drdavidjleonard.

Introduction

1. The Scrappy White Leader

2. He Got Brains: Whiteness and Intelligence on and off the Court

3. Talking Trash (While White): A Betrayal of Tradition or a Sign of Competitive Leadership?

4. White Thugs?: Crime and the Culture of Innocence

5. Getting High: The New Jim Crow and White Athletes

6. Redemption and Character Building: Making Mistakes While White 133

7. (White) Women and Sports: Selling White Femininity

8. Driving While White: NASCAR and the Politics of Race

9. Playing the White Way: From the Cardinals to the Badgers

10. Sporting Cultures and White Victims

Erscheinungsdatum	23.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	Playing While White
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-295-74188-0 / 0295741880
ISBN-13	978-0-295-74188-8 / 9780295741888
Zustand	Neuware