Swansey, J. (2021). Nascar America: The Myth And Melodrama Of White Masculinity In Stock Car Racing’s National Vision. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.14418/wes01.1.2479
In NASCAR America, the culmination of a summer of digital fieldwork and my lifelong immersion in American stock car racing fan culture, I describe how NASCAR’s masculinist melodrama communicates a vision of the American nation to its fans, a vision of good ol’ boys and their souped-up muscle cars, of meritocracy and patriotism, and how the political aims of that national image were revealed over the course of a contentious 2020 season.
