Whiteness and Leisure

by Karl Spracklen

Book Overview

The way in which leisure is used to construct whiteness and the way in which whiteness shapes leisure, is an important unanswered theme in sociological analyses of leisure. This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and leisure, which draws in part on existing leisure theories and in part on the critical theorising around 'race' and whiteness. In developing a new theory of whiteness and leisure, new primary and existing secondary empirical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137026693
• ISBN13: 9781137026699
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"