Danny Almonte: Discursive Construction(s) of (Im)migrant Citizenship in Neoliberal America

• Autores: Ryan King-White
• Localización: Sociology of sport journal, ISSN 0741-1235, Vol. 27, Nº. 2, 2010, págs. 178-199
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this project I will trace former Little League Baseball star, Danny Almonte�s, celebrity identity and flexible citizenship with particular regard to the way that he has been used as both an exemplary Dominican immigrant and later a cautionary tale. As such this critical biography of Almonte�s rise and fall in American popular culture�informed by Henry Giroux�s extensive theorizing on youth culture, Ong�s concept of flexible citizenship, and Steven Jackson�s understanding of "twisting"�will critically interrogate the mediated discourses used to describe, define, and make Almonte into a symbol of a (stereo)typical Dominican male. In accordance with contemporaneous hyper-conservative and neoliberal rhetoric pervasive throughout the United States, I posit the notion that Almonte�s contested celebrity was formulated within the popular media as the embodiment of the minority "assault" on white privilege.