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"The Bead of Raw Sweat in a Field of Dainty Perspirers": Nationalism, Whiteness and the Olympic-Class Ordeal of Tonya Harding

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dc.contributor.authorKrause, Elizabeth L
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.date2023-09-23T15:04:58.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T08:20:59Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T08:20:59Z
dc.date.issued1996
dc.description<p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the interrelations of whiteness, gender, class and nationalism as represented in popular media discourses surrounding the coverage of the assault on Olympic ice skater Nancy Kerrigan and the investigation of her rival, Tonya Harding. As with other recent works that have refocused the issue of "race" on whiteness, this essay seeks to unveil the exclusionary social processes in which boundaries are set and marked within the" difference" of whiteness. The concepts of habitus and historicity are used to understand how Tonya Harding became marked as "white trash," and the implications of her "flawed" qualifications are explored. Furthermore, this paper identifies ongoing ideological struggles over moral regulation and reproduction of the nation and its subjects.
dc.description.pages31-55
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/2295
dc.relation.ispartofArizona Anthropologist
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1338&amp;context=anthro_faculty_pubs&amp;unstamped=1
dc.source.issue12
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectNationalism
dc.subjectwhiteness
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectclass
dc.subjectrace
dc.subjectideology
dc.subjectmedia discourse
dc.subjectAnthropology
dc.title"The Bead of Raw Sweat in a Field of Dainty Perspirers": Nationalism, Whiteness and the Olympic-Class Ordeal of Tonya Harding
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