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"Incisive and troubling."

-- Marilyn Dahl * Shelf Awareness for Readers *

"Playing While White is a critical text for anyone interested in sports and whiteness studies and definitively puts to rest the claim that race is irrelevant in the commentaries surrounding athletes and their participation in sports."

* Black Perspectives (AAIHS) *

Table of Contents

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

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      Publisher: University of Washington Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/07/2017
      ISBN13: 9780295741888, 978-0295741888
      ISBN10: 0295741880
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      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Sociology: sport and leisure

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      "Incisive and troubling."

      -- Marilyn Dahl * Shelf Awareness for Readers *

      "Playing While White is a critical text for anyone interested in sports and whiteness studies and definitively puts to rest the claim that race is irrelevant in the commentaries surrounding athletes and their participation in sports."

      * Black Perspectives (AAIHS) *

      Table of Contents

      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

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