I Want to be the Minority

The Politics of Youthful White Masculinities in Sport and Popular Culture in 1990s America

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2348872
AutoresKyle W Kusz (0000-0003-1066-1163, Department of Kinesiology & Physical Education at Northern Illinois University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen25
Número4
Páginas390-416
Fecha de publicación2001-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0193723501254004
OpenAlexW2112469900
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas34
Referencias citadas18

In this article, the author offers a contextualized cultural analysis of the 'youthful' White masculinities constituted in two sites: first, a 1997 Sports Illustrated cover story titled,'Whatever Happened to the White Athlete?' and second, a discourse about the social-psychological development of adolescent boys written in the wake of the rash of school shootings that took place in the United States in 1997-1998.The author's main contention is that these representations of disadvantaged and victimized youthful White masculinities found both inside and outside of sport discourses signify a new representational strategy of White male backlash politics in the late 1990s-the youthification of the White male as victim trope

Art · Backlash · Disadvantaged · Literature · Masculinity · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Trope (literature · White (mutation · Engineering · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies