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 dominant white ra...
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
[2011]
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| Series: | Perspectives on a multiracial America series.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction. Celebrities, Commodities, and Criminals: African American Athletes and the Racial Politics of Culture; Chapter 1. America's New Son: Tiger Woods and America's Multiculturalism; Chapter 2. Sister Act VI: Venus and Serena Williams at Indian Wells: "Sincere Fictions" and White Racism; Chapter 3. Ghettocentrism and the Essentialized Black Male Athlete; Chapter 4. Why Can't Kobe Pass (the Ball)? Race and the NBA in an Age of Neoliberalism; Chapter 5. One Nation under a Hoop: Race, Meritocracy, and Messiahs in the NBA.