Commodified and Criminalized

Commodified and Criminalized
Title Commodified and Criminalized PDF eBook
Author David J. Leonard
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages 274
Release 2010-12-28
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1442206799

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Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white racial frames. Contributors discuss athletes ranging from Tiger Woods and Serena Williams to Freddy Adu and Shani Davis. Through dynamic case studies, Commodified and Criminalized unpacks the conversation between black athletes and colorblind discourse, while challenging the assumptions of contemporary sports culture. The contributors in this provocative collection push the conversation beyond the playing field and beyond the racial landscape of sports culture to explore the connections between sports representations and a broader history of racialized violence.

Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime

Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime
Title Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime PDF eBook
Author Mike Presdee
Publisher Routledge
Pages 193
Release 2003-09-02
Genre Law
ISBN 1134554583

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This book attempts to make sense of the current increase in violence, cruelty, hate and humiliation, arguing that an overly organised economic world has provoked desire for extreme forms of popular and personal pleasure.

After Artest

After Artest
Title After Artest PDF eBook
Author David J. Leonard
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 277
Release 2012-05-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 143844205X

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Explores how the NBA moved to govern black players and the expression of blackness after the “Palace Brawl” of 2004.

African Americans on Television

African Americans on Television
Title African Americans on Television PDF eBook
Author David J. Leonard
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 406
Release 2013-04-23
Genre Social Science
ISBN

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A comprehensive look at the history of African Americans on television that discusses major trends in black TV and examines the broader social implications of the relationship between race and popular culture as well as race and representation. Previous treatments of the history of African Americans in television have largely lacked theoretical analysis of the relationship between representations and social contexts. African Americans on Television: Race-ing for Ratings fills the existing void by supplying fundamental history with critical analyses of the racial politics of television, documenting the considerable effect that television has had on popular notions of black identity in America since the inception of television. Covering a spectrum of genres—comedy, drama, talk shows, television movies, variety shows, and reality television, including shows such as Good Times, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Chappelle's Show—this insightful work traces a cultural genealogy of African Americans in television. Its chronological analysis provides an engaging historical account of how African Americans entered the genre of television and have continued to play a central role in the development of both the medium and the industry. The book also tracks the shift in the significance of African Americans in the television market and industry, and the changing, but enduring, face of stereotypes and racism in American television culture.

Those Who Know Don't Say

Those Who Know Don't Say
Title Those Who Know Don't Say PDF eBook
Author Garrett Felber
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 273
Release 2019-11-21
Genre History
ISBN 1469653834

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Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this bold new political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centers the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state. In doing so, he reveals a multifaceted freedom struggle that focused as much on policing and prisons as on school desegregation and voting rights. The book examines efforts to build broad-based grassroots coalitions among liberals, radicals, and nationalists to oppose the carceral state and struggle for local Black self-determination. It captures the ambiguous place of the Nation of Islam specifically, and Black nationalist organizing more broadly, during an era which has come to be defined by nonviolent resistance, desegregation campaigns, and racial liberalism. By provocatively documenting the interplay between law enforcement and Muslim communities, Felber decisively shows how state repression and Muslim organizing laid the groundwork for the modern carceral state and the contemporary prison abolition movement which opposes it. Exhaustively researched, the book illuminates new sites and forms of political struggle as Muslims prayed under surveillance in prison yards and used courtroom political theater to put the state on trial. This history captures familiar figures in new ways--Malcolm X the courtroom lawyer and A. Philip Randolph the Harlem coalition builder--while highlighting the forgotten organizing of rank-and-file activists in prisons such as Martin Sostre. This definitive account is an urgent reminder that Islamophobia, state surveillance, and police violence have deep roots in the state repression of Black communities during the mid-20th century.

Beyond Hate

Beyond Hate
Title Beyond Hate PDF eBook
Author Professor C Richard King
Publisher Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Pages 201
Release 2014-07-28
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1472427491

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Drawing on a range of new media sources, including websites, chat rooms, blogs and forums, this book explores the concerns expressed by advocates of white power, with regard to racial hierarchy and social order, the crisis of traditional American values, the perpetuation of liberal, feminist, elitist ideas, the degradation of the family and the fetishization of black men. What emerges is an understanding of the instruments of power in white supremacist discourses, in which a series of connections are drawn between popular culture, multiculturalism, sexual politics and state functions, all of which are seen to be working against white men.

Brown Neon

Brown Neon
Title Brown Neon PDF eBook
Author Raquel Gutiérrez
Publisher Coffee House Press
Pages 167
Release 2022-06-07
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1566896452

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A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders. Part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree, Raquel Gutiérrez’s debut essay collection, Brown Neon, gleans insight from the sediment of land and relationships. For Gutiérrez, terrain is essential to understanding that no story, no matter how personal, is separate from the space where it unfolds. Whether contemplating the value of adobe as both vernacular architecture and commodified art object, highlighting the feminist wounding and transphobic apparitions haunting the multigenerational lesbian social fabric, or recalling a failed romance, Gutiérrez traverses complex questions of gender, class, identity, and citizenship with curiosity and nuance.