Sports and Identity

Sport and Race:

Chapter 1 Brawn, Brains, and the Dearth of Black NFL Quarterbacks

Chapter 2 Cullen Jones is my Friend!: Increasing Diversity in Swimming Through Parasocial Relationships on Facebook

Chapter 3 LeBron James as Cybercolonized Spectacle: A Critical Race Reading of Whiteness in Sport

Chapter 4 Jackie Robinson, Civic Republicanism, and Black Political Culture

Chapter 5 "Grit and Graciousness": Sport, Rhetoric, and Race in Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign

Sport and Gender:

Chapter 6 Female Ballplayers as Feminine Tomboys and Citizens: A Progressive Concordance in American Culture

Chapter 7 Constructing Replay, Consuming Bodies: Sport Media and the Neoliberal Citizen

Chapter 8 ". . . dreams include pregnant bellies or being passed around the frat house": Investigating Heteronormativity in Sport

Sport and Image Management:

Chapter 9 Managing Ideologies and Identities: Reporting the Penn State Scandal

Chapter 10 Just Warming Up: Logan Morrison, Twitter, Athlete Identity, and Building the Brand

Chapter 11 "Where My Falcons At?": The Stroh Center Rap and Representation of Organizational Identities in College Sports

Sport Mediation and Simulation:

Chapter 12 Biopolitics, Algorithms, Identity: Electronic Arts and the Sports Gamer

Chapter 13 Family (Sports) Television: Exploring Cultural Power, Domestic Leisure, and Fandom in the Modern Context

Chapter 14 Put Me In Boss: Ideological Fantasies in Cultural Discourse of Fantasy Football