Critical Sports Studies

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Critical Sports Studies: A Document Reader</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> provides students with a selection of essays that examine social problems in sport. Readers are challenged to critically consider various topics to better understand how the global phenomenon of sport can lead to challenges both on and off the field.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The second edition features new readings on racism and the display of the Confederate flag in NASCAR racing; gendered harassment in sportscasting; LGBTQIA discrimination in sports and coaching; politics in the Olympics; and racism and stereotyping in college sports and on campus. New articles also address </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(43 45 46 1)>Title IX and African American female athletes; athletes with social physique anxiety; muscle dysmorphia and eating disorders; sports hazing in universities and high school; and sexual and physical abuse by teachers coaches and clergy. The anthology includes an essay from a former NBA player on what Colin Kaepernick started in sports.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Critical Sports Studies</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is an ideal supplementary or core text for courses in critical sports studies kinesiology the sociology of sport or any course related to the history and culture of sport.</span></p>