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.
- ISBN13 9780230115194
- Publish Date 8 November 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition 2011 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English