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Author Yochim, Emily Chivers.

Title Skate life : re-imagining white masculinity / Emily Chivers Yochim.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) : illustrations.
Series Technologies of the imagination
Technologies of the imagination.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-225).
Contents Introduction: Regarding Skate Life -- "The mix of sunshine and rebellion is really intoxicating": American Mythologies, Rebellious Boys, and the Multiple Appeals of Skateboarding's Corresponding Culture, 1950-2006 -- "Freedom on four wheels": Individuality, Self-Expression, and Authentic Masculinity in a Skateboarding Community -- "Why is it the things that make you a man tend to be such dumb things to do?": Never-Ending Adolescence and the (De)stabilization of White Masculine Power on MTV -- "It's just what's possible": Imagining Alternative Masculinities and Performing White Male Dominance in Niche Skateboarding Videos -- "You do it together, and everyone just does it in their own way": Corresponding Cultures and (Anti)patriarchal Masculinity.
Note Print version record.
Subject Skateboarding -- Social aspects.
Masculinity in sports.
Men, White -- United States -- Attitudes.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Skateboarding.
Skateboarder.
Männlichkeit.
Gemeinschaftsgefühl.
Individualismus.
Nonkonformismus.
United States.
Other Form: Print version: Yochim, Emily Chivers. Skate life. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2010 9780472050802 (DLC) 2009033066 (OCoLC)318875000
Standard No. 9786612639104
ISBN 9780472026609 (electronic bk.)
0472026607 (electronic bk.)
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