Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation |
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| Author:
| Newman, Joshua I.
Giardina, Michael D. |
| Series title: | Education, Politics and Public Life Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-283-36032-6 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2012 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $190.00 |
Book Description:
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"Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation "critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon of the North American sporting popular. While most contributions to the public discourse gloss over NASCAR's exclusively white racial identity politics, its underlying patriarchal gender politics, its overtly conservative political commitment, its hyper-Christian orthodoxy, and its omnipresent commercialism, this book connects the dots and critically analyzes the...
More Description"Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation "critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon of the North American sporting popular. While most contributions to the public discourse gloss over NASCAR's exclusively white racial identity politics, its underlying patriarchal gender politics, its overtly conservative political commitment, its hyper-Christian orthodoxy, and its omnipresent commercialism, this book connects the dots and critically analyzes the problematic nature of this non-natural, strategically-orchestrated sporting spectacle.