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Playing While White - Privilege and Power on and off the Field (Hardcover)
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Playing While White - Privilege and Power on and off the Field (Hardcover)
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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.
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