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"The Way New Zealanders Would like to See Themselves": Reading White Masculinity Via Media Coverage of the Death of Sir Peter Blake
2005
Sociology of Sport Journal
In the face of growing scholarly concern about whiteness, and following Denzin's (1996) argument that "those who control the media control a society's discourses about itself" (p. 319), it becomes vital to interrogate and map what is at stake in specifi c representations of whiteness that gain purchase and mobilize the nation in shared ways. In death, America's Cup sailor and adventurer Sir Peter Blake was held up as a New Zealand hero representative of a "true" national character. We argue
doi:10.1123/ssj.22.3.336
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