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Joseph Darda
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Joseph Darda is a professor of English at Michigan State University and a historian of American culture, sports, and racial formation. He is the author of four books, including, most recently, Gift and Grit: Race, Sports, and the Construction of Social Debt (Cambridge University Press, 2025), which investigates how the sports industry has incubated ideas about race, gender, and advantage since the civil rights era. His previous books include The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism (Stanford University Press, 2022), How White Men Won the Culture Wars: A History of Veteran America (University of California Press, 2021), and Empire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War (University of Chicago Press, 2019). CHOICE named How White Men Won the Culture Wars an Outstanding Academic Title for 2022, and the New Republic called it “original and persuasive” and “a wide-ranging and provocative tour through the post-Vietnam cultural and political scene.” Darda has published articles in American Literary History, American Literature, American Quarterly, and Critical Inquiry, among other journals, and contributed essays to the Los Angeles Review of Books. His own athletic background informs his interest in the politics of sports. He competed in track and field for the University of Washington from 2005 to 2009 and has raced more than fifty marathons since. He lives in East Lansing with his wife and daughter.
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