Unquestioned racial beliefs about sport persist precisely because they go untested

Evidence

That so many sport discussions and debates are not consciously recognized as having broader societal causes, connections, and consequences only, in my view, accentuates sport’s racial power and importance further still. Sport, to redeploy Ralph Ellison’s classic depiction of the African American, is at once an invisible and hypervisible racial terrain. Finally there are the obvious parallels between dominant liberal democratic ideals (and their optimistic, color-blind vision of racial harmony and justice) and sport’s own culture of fairness and meritocracy. All of this is simply to insist that the interesting and important question is not whether sport is a significant racial force but what kind of a racial force is sport? — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2753 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sport’s racial power is amplified precisely because its racial dynamics go unrecognized — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2753; Ninety-one percent of Americans believed sports participation improves interracial relations

Broader Connections

• Sport’s racial power is amplified precisely because its racial dynamics go unrecognized #corroborates (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2753