David J Leonard

Playing While White

Privilege and Power on and off the Field

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780295741871
• ISBN-10: 0295741872
• Artikelnr.: 46878007

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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