TY  - BOOK
AU  - Newman,Joshua I.
AU  - Giardina,Michael D.
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Sport, spectacle, and NASCAR nation: consumption and the cultural politics of neoliberalism 
T2  - Education, politics, and public life
AV  - GV1029.9.S74 N48 2011
U1  - 796.720973 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - NASCAR (Association)
KW  - Stock car racing
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: -- Why NASCAR? Why Now? * Sporting Automobility * The Road and Serfdom * Consuming Stockcar Bodies * The "Southernization" of Sporting America * Racing for Jesus * Militarizing NASCAR Nation * The Limits to NASCAR Nation * Coda: On Recession and Secession; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
N2  - "Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon of the North American sporting popular. While most contributions to the public discourse gloss over NASCAR's exclusively white racial identity politics, its underlying patriarchal gender politics, its overtly conservative political commitment, its hyper-Christian orthodoxy, and its omnipresent commercialism, this book connects the dots and critically analyzes the problematic nature of this non-natural, strategically-orchestrated sporting spectacle"--
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=815826
ER  -