Thorough racialization of sport enables it as a site for social mobilization.

Evidence

If resistance goes hand in hand with domination, in this view, resistance is always extremely limited, partial, and contained. There is a good deal of wisdom in this way of thinking. But however typical this outcome may be, it is important to remember that it is precisely because sporting practices are so thoroughly racialized that they present much larger scale opportunities and possibilities for social mobilization and change. … Sport is not just a site for the reproduction of racial stereotypes and formations but also a site of potential struggle and challenge against them. It is, as I have suggested before in reappropriating Bourdieu’s famous phrase, a source (or at least potential source) of cultural capital that can be directed toward larger struggles for racial justice in the USA. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2787

Categorization

• SEED: Potential essay: why activists target sport specifically — because its prominence and its racialization weaponize cultural capital toward justice struggles.