I Want to be the Minority

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

Bibliographic Data

ID2348872
AuthorsKyle W Kusz (0000-0003-1066-1163, Department of Kinesiology & Physical Education at Northern Illinois University, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume25
Issue4
Pages390-416
Publication date2001-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0193723501254004
OpenAlexW2112469900
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited18

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