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.

Autorentext
Joshua I. Newman lectures in the areas of sport and physical culture, qualitative research, cultural studies, and critical pedagogy in the School of Physical Education at the University of Otago (New Zealand).Michael D. Giardina is an assistant professor in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University.

Inhalt
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