Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Celebrities, Commodities, and Criminals: African American Athletes and the Racial Politics of Culture -- 1 -- America's New Son: Tiger Woods and America's Multiculturalism1 -- 2 -- Sister Act VI: Venus and Serena Williams at Indian Wells: "Sincere Fictions" and White Racism -- 3 -- Ghettocentrism and the Essentialized Black Male Athlete1 -- 4 -- Why Can't Kobe Pass (the Ball)? Race and the NBA in an Age of Neoliberalism -- 5 -- One Nation under a Hoop: Race, Meritocracy, and Messiahs in the NBA -- 6 -- Much Adu about Nothing? Freddy Adu and Neoliberal Racism in New Millennium America -- 7 -- Me and Bonnie Blair: Shani Davis, Racial Myths, and the Reiteration of the Facts of Blackness -- 8 -- The Dennis Rodman of Hockey: Ray Emery and the Policing of Blackness in the Great White North -- 9 -- Contesting the Closet: Sheryl Swoopes, Racialized Sexuality, and Media Culture -- 10 -- "Life with no hoop": Black Pride, State Power -- Postscript -- America's Son? Tiger Woods as Commodification and Criminalization -- Contributors.

Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white racial frames. Contributors discuss athletes ranging from Tiger Woods and Serena Williams to Freddy Adu and Shani Davis.

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