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100 1 _aNewman, Joshua I.,
_d1976-
245 1 0 _aSport, spectacle, and NASCAR nation
_h[electronic resource] :
_bconsumption and the cultural politics of neoliberalism /
_cJoshua I. Newman and Michael D. Giardina.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2011.
300 _axiii, 288 p. :
_bill.
490 1 _aEducation, politics, and public life
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 _aMachine 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
533 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
610 2 0 _aNASCAR (Association)
650 0 _aStock car racing
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aStock car racing
_xPolitical aspects
_zUnited States.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aGiardina, Michael D.,
_d1976-
710 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aEducation, politics, and public life.
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=815826
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