Social Justice in Globalized Fitness and Health : Bodies Out of Sight.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- References -- 1 "My fault?" Neoliberal globalization, market-driven education, and the erasure of difference in fitness and health -- Fitness and health in the eye of neoliberalism: your body, your fault, your "cultural lack" -- Schooling the neoliberal body to fix "deficiencies" in fitness and health -- The neoliberal body in fitness and health: a neo-colonial globalized enterprise -- References -- 2 Who am I? The ethnic self in the Western eye -- Today's pedagogical condition of schooling: the achievement gap, the health gap, and the myth of black inferiority -- Deficit stories, difference, and the damage imagery -- Against the "alienness of the body": "the self coheres" in a supportive pedagogical space -- References -- 3 Interrupting the racialization process through the lens of postcolonialism, critical race theory (CRT), and post-feminism -- Restoring an affirmative subject position through storylines: critical race theory, postcolonialism, and post-feminism -- Postcolonialism -- Critical race theory -- Post-feminism -- References -- 4 A Body Curriculum in school PE for enhancing body encounters and cultural resistance -- Corporate media and its control over young people's access to body culture -- Letting a new picture of the body emerge at school: the Body Curriculum and its transformative potential -- Final remarks -- References -- 5 Bodies out of sight on stage: "you have to love yourself no matter what" -- Never perfectly white, but "eat good, do exercise, take care of your body, and look good" -- Moving in NYC: "it opened my eyes" -- A final picture -- References -- 6 Toward critical public pedagogies: the power of art exhibitions -- Sustaining a "public voice" for social justice.

Reclaiming the public sphere to contest the myth of a "good life" in globalized fitness and health -- Authorizing the play of "difference" at art exhibitions -- References -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Social Justice in Globalized Fitness and Health draws attention to how neoliberal ideologies impacting the body overlook the intersection of class, gender/sex, and race that informs how young, ethnic minority people embody and negotiate normative discourses of fitness and health.

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