Sport, spectacle, and NASCAR nation : consumption and the cultural politics of neoliberalism
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Sport, spectacle, and NASCAR nation : consumption and the cultural politics of neoliberalism
（Education, politics, and public life / series editors, Henry A. Giroux, Susan Searls Giroux）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
- : hardback
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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