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eBook details
- Title: White Sports/Black Sports
- Author : Lori Latrice Martin
- Release Date : January 03, 2015
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,Sports & Outdoors,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4348 KB
Description
The racial makeup of sports in the United States serves as a classic example of racism in the 21st century. This book examines the racial disparities in sports and the continuing significance of race in 21st-century America, debunking the myth of a "postracial society."
• Examines how race and sports are powerful social constructions
• Presents examples of how sports can serve as both a liberating and an oppressive force
• Explains how sports influence and are influenced by society and the ways in which institutional barriers and personal practices perpetuate racism in sports and in the society at large
• Documents how historic racial stereotypes, such as the "brute" and "sapphire" caricatures, are alive and well in the world of sports