Sport is best understood as a contested racial terrain synthesizing popular and scholarly views

Evidence

There are two existing ways of thinking about the racial force of sport that any serious student of the subject must take into account: one is popular or even commonsensical, the other is scholarly and deeply critical of the first. Juxtaposing these two very different visions - which I call the “popular ideology” and the “scholarly critique” - and their respective insights and shortcomings against each other is the first step toward developing a full and satisfactory understanding of the complex relationships between sport and race in the United States. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2755

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the analytic frame of ‘popular ideology’ versus ‘scholarly critique’ as the two governing frameworks.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2755