ISBN:
9780415955805
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (229 p)
Series Statement:
Critical Youth Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Youth Culture and Sport : Identity, Power, and Politics
DDC:
306.4/83
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Youth Culture and Sport critically interrogates and challenges contemporary articulations of race, class, gender, and sexual relations circulating throughout popular iterations of youth sporting culture in late-capitalism. Written against the backdrop of important changes in social, cultural, political, and economic dynamics taking place in corporate culture's war on kids, this exciting new volume marks the first anthology to critically examine the intersection of youth culture and sport in an age of global uncertainty. Bringing together leading scholars from cultural studies, gend
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Youth Culture and Sport: Identity, Power, and Politics; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor Introduction; Foreword: A Critical Youth Studies for the Historical Present; Acknowledgments; Introduction; SECTION I Politics of Culture/Culture of Politics; CHAPTER 1 The Little League World Series: Spectacle of Youthful Innocence or Spectre of the American New Right?; CHAPTER 2 Screening Race in America: Sport, Cinema, and the Politics of Urban Youth Culture; CHAPTER 3 Bounding American Empire: Sport, Sex, and Politics; SECTION II Branding the "Alternative"
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 4 Exploiting a New Generation: Corporate Branding and the Co-Optation of Action SportCHAPTER 5 To the White Extreme in the Mainstream: Manhood and White Youth Culture in a Virtual Sports World; CHAPTER 6 "You Can Break So Many More Rules": The Identity Work and Play of Becoming Skater Girls; CHAPTER 7 "Take the Slam and Get Back Up": Hardcore Candy and the Politics of Representation in Girls' and Women's Skateboarding and Snowboarding on Television; SECTION III Racialized Pedagogies; CHAPTER 8 Hostile Environments: Anti-Indian Imagery, Racial Pedagogies, and Youth Sport Cultures
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 9 Culture, Colonialism, and Competition: Youth Sport Culture in Canada's NorthCHAPTER 10 From Babies to Ballers: Girls' Youth Basketball and the Re-Becoming of U.S. Motherhood; Coda: Youth Sport in the Shadows of American Vertigo; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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