“Surfing? That’s a White Boy Sport”: An Intersectional Analysis of Mexican Americans’ Experiences with Southern California Surf Culture

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dc.contributor.advisorVasquez-Tokos, Jessica
dc.contributor.authorComley, Cassie
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-30T21:09:27Z
dc.date.available2019-04-30T21:09:27Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-30
dc.description.abstractThe primary purpose of this ethnographic study is to contextualize Mexican American surfers experiences with sport as a lens into race, gender and class relations. Specifically, it seeks to understand how a history of gender, race, and class oppression has played out in this understudied terrain of sports. This study offers empirical insight into the ways in which Mexican Americans navigate and (un)successfully infiltrate predominantly white, male, middle-class sporting arenas. In this study I also examine the relationship between access and barriers, specifically how access to public recreational spaces are constricted by participants’ real and imagined barriers. By exploring Mexican American surfers’ everyday experiences, I unearthed the varying ways Mexican American surfers experienced discrimination and marginalization across intersecting and interlocking identities.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/24533
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US
dc.subjectCritical race theoryen_US
dc.subjectCritical surf studiesen_US
dc.subjectIntersectionalityen_US
dc.subjectSociology of genderen_US
dc.subjectSociology of sporten_US
dc.subjectWomen in sportsen_US
dc.title“Surfing? That’s a White Boy Sport”: An Intersectional Analysis of Mexican Americans’ Experiences with Southern California Surf Culture
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Sociology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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