Sport simultaneously advances and constrains racial interests through public struggle

Evidence

Rather, it is to insist that the relationships between sport and race are more complicated and contradictory than sociological critics have usually realized. … What we need, in other words, is a theory that is deeply and (once again) properly critical of the popular belief that sport is a pure and perfect arena of racial progress, but which is, at the same time, able to allow that sport may affect positive, progressive racial change under certain conditions, in certain social settings, and for certain kinds of racial concerns. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2778

Categorization

• XREF: This either/or-then-synthesis move echoes the reader’s interest in dialectical frameworks and balanced institutional analysis rather than totalizing critique.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2778