Youth culture and sport : identity, power, and politics / edited by Michael D. Giardina, Michele K. Donnelly.

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Introduction / Michael D. Giardina and Michele K. Donnelly -- The Little League World Series : spectacle of youthful innocence or specter of the American new right? / Ryan White, Michael L. Silk, and David L. Andrews -- Screening race in America : sport, cinema, and the politics of urban youth culture / Michael D. Giardina and Cameron R. McCarthy -- Bounding American empire : sport, sex and politics / C.L. Cole -- Exploiting a new generation : corporate branding and the co-optation of action sport / Robert E. Rinehart -- To the white extreme in the mainstream : manhood, and white youth culture in a virtual sports world / David J. Leonard -- "You can break so many more rules" : the identity work and play of becoming skater girls / Deirdre M. Kelly, Shauna Pomerantz, and Dawn H. Currie -- "Take the slam and get back up" : hardcore candy and the politics of representation in girl's and women's skateboarding and snowboarding on television / Michele K. Donnelly -- Hostile environments : anti-Indian imagery, racial pedagogies, and youth sport cultures / C. Richard King -- Culture, colonialism, and competition : youth sport culture in Canada's north / Audrey R. Giles and Ava C. Baker -- From babies to ballers : girl's youth basketball and the re-becoming of U.S. motherhood / Jennifer L. Metz -- Coda: Youth sport in the shadows of American vertigo / Michael D. Giardina.

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Youth Culture and Sport critically interrogates and challenges contemporary articulations of race, class, gender, and sexual relations circulating throughout popular iterations of youth sporting culture in late-capitalism. Written against the backdrop of important changes in social, cultural, political, and economic dynamics taking place in corporate culture's war on kids, this exciting new volume marks the first anthology to critically examine the intersection of youth culture and sport in an age of global uncertainty. Bringing together leading scholars from cultural studies, gend.

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