Whiteness and leisure /

"The way in which leisure is used to construct whiteness and the way in which whiteness shapes leisure, is an important unanswered theme in sociological analyses of leisure. This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and leisure, which draws in part on existing leisure theories a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spracklen, Karl
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2013.
Series:Leisure Studies in A Global Era.
Subjects:
Popular culture.
Leisure.
Whites-Race identity.
Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=geczAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • 1. Thinking about the Problem
  • 2. Theories of 'Race' and Whiteness
  • 3. Studies of Whiteness in Leisure Studies
  • 4. A New Theory of Whiteness
  • 5. Whiteness and Popular Culture
  • 6. Whiteness and Music
  • 7. Whiteness and Sport
  • 8. Whiteness and Sports Media
  • 9. Whiteness and Everyday Leisure
  • 10. Whiteness and Tourism
  • 11. Whiteness and Outdoor Leisure
  • 12. Conclusions.

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