Michael Jordan, Inc. : corporate sport, media culture, and late modern America /

Michael Jordan, Inc. : corporate sport, media culture, and late modern America / David L. Andrews, editor. - xx, 301 pages ; 23 cm. - SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations . - SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

foreword: From Paul Robeson to Althea Gibson to Michael Jordan: Images of Race Relations and Sport / Introduction: Michael Jordan Matters / Jordan and the Celebrity Economy. Representing Michael / Michael Jordan and His Uniform Number / Jordan and Corporate Culture. The Sport Spectacle, Michael Jordan, and Nike: Unholy Alliance? / Nike's America / America's Michael Jordan / Jordan and Identity Politics. The Fact(s) of Michael Jordan's Blackness: Excavating a Floating Racial Signifier / Safe Sex Symbol?: Michael Jordan and the Politics of Representation / Jordan and the Global Marketplace. The Global Jordanscape / Michael Jordan, Sneaker Commercials, and Canadian Youth Cultures / Jordan and Critical Pedagogy. Be Like Mike?: Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire / Just Do It: What Michael Jordan Has to Teach Us / C. Keith Harrison -- David L. Andrews -- Norman K. Denzin. Edward G. Armstrong -- Douglas Kellner. C. L. Cole -- David L. Andrews. Mary G. McDonald -- Ben Carrington, David L. Andrews and Steven J. Jackson / [et al.]. Brian Wilson and Robert Sparks -- Michael Eric Dyson. Michael Hoechsmann. pt. I. 1. 2. pt. II. 3. 4. pt. III. 5. 6. pt. IV. 7. 8. pt. V. 9. 10.

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Jordan, Michael, 1963- --Influence.


Sports--Anthropological aspects--United States
Mass media and sports--Social aspects--United States

GV706.2 / .M53 2001

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