HKIN 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Tiger Woods, Sexualization, Magic Johnson
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Stacking in sport: certain roles are distributed based on racial characteristic. Black quarterback myth/head coach: 9 years ago was the first time there was a black male coach in the nfl. Black super-stud sportsman : commodification/appropriation of the black inner-city atti- tude, sport saves the black man, the black man is bad ass, the black passport to white status is always revocable. Objectifying black students as athletes: blame it on girls . Attributing problems to women: women gold-digging , examples; Dennis rodman bad-assed, bare-assed and black : reverses the gaze, claims nba is 50% sex and 50% money, stretches and tests heterosexual boundaries. Big ben johnson: biggest media sports scandal, 1988 olympics tests positive for steroids after winning gold, canada won but jamaican tests positive, ben claims using drugs to enhance his gonorrhoea treatment, sexual and racial anxiety. Tiger woods: sex scandal woods was addicted to sex, authors believe that black masculinity become perpetuated as uncontrolled source of machismo.
