Sport’s value to African Americans derives from its position in the racial ghetto

Evidence

If sport is golden for African Americans, it is mainly because of its unique place in and relationship to the prevailing structures of the metaphorical racial ghetto itself. This is neither a criticism nor a celebration of sport; it is simply an observation about the ironies of race and resistance in contemporary, post-Civil Rights American culture. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2790