Can I read Race, Sport and the American Dream: Third Edition on EtoBox?

Race, Sport and the American Dream: Third Edition by Earl Smith, Rubin Distinguished Profeffor and Director of American Ethnic Studies and Professor of Sociology, Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, North Carolina is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Race, Sport and the American Dream: Third Edition about?

This book looks at issues related to the African American athlete. Smith examines the world of amateur sports (Olympic and intercollegiate sport) using Immanuel Wallerstein's ''World-Systems Paradigm'' which provides a lens with which to examine the colonizing and exploitative nature of intercollegiate sports and the special arrangements that universities have with SportsWorld. Across a variety of topics including sport as big business--which Smith terms the Athletic Industrial Complex--to criminal behavior by athletes, to the lack of leadership opportunities for African American athletes, to the question of the biological superiority of African American athletes, Smith argues that any discussion of race and sport must be understood within this context of power and domination. Otherwise the importance of the question itself will always be (a) misunderstood or (b) underestimated. This third edition of Race, Sport and the American Dream also includes a discussion of the increased role that social media plays in SportsWorld by allowing everyone and anyone to become a ''sports critic'' as well as a discussion of race in SportsWorld in the era of changing the racial landscape of the U.S

Author

Earl Smith, Rubin Distinguished Profeffor and Director of American Ethnic Studies and Professor of Sociology, Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Publisher

Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611634877

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Lifestyle