Extreme Sports as a Context of Implicit Whiteness
A reader sent along this video of Jeb Corliss, an extreme athlete, flying through the Alps. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k Here’s extreme surfer Laird Hamilton surfing waves so big that he has to be towed into the path of the wave. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYQQtxb8wv0&feature=related Corliss and Hamilton are White, and being White seems to be part of a pattern for extreme […]