ABSTRACT
In spite of the media’s illusion of a post-racial and post-feminist Western society, the current neoliberal condition of schooling and society presents a “not-so-postracial” and a “not-so-postfeminist” era, maintaining enduring colorblind as well as genderblind worldviews of education, fitness, and health. Under the current health imperatives driven by neoliberalism, the body-at-risk dominant discourse produced by the “health gap” between ethnic minoritized young people and white middle-class people, if not theoretically addressed and conceptualized from a sociocultural and critical perspective, and moreover, if addressed solely with a “damage-centered” scholarship, will continue to reproduce “health disparities” in public health, operating as a new form of colonization over ethnic minoritized young people in globalized fitness and health. To counter colorblind and genderblind ideologies driven by neoliberal globalization, the purpose of the Body Curriculum is to generate, create, and perform “hybrid identities” with integrity. I conclude the book by suggesting that at art exhibitions, ethnic minoritized young people become performers, activists, and artists in the presentation of the self in their daily lives, staging the struggles, difficulties, yet dreams, ambitions, and positive aspects of their own idea of their sense of identity in fitness and health.
