Race and Ethnicity in Sports

A population of people who are believed to be naturally or biologically distinct from other populations.

• ethnicity

• ethnic population

• race

• ethnic minority

Coach Boone takes the team on the night run to where 50,000 men died at the battle of Gettysburg. What was the fight that they are "still fighting today?"

• the Civil War

• whether or not slavery should be legal

• the fight for independence

• racism

Why do black male students often have a difficult time shaking “athlete” identity labels that are based on prevailing racial ideology in the U.S.?

• Most black students are athletes

• Many people don’t see an honor student when they see a black male

• Most professional athletes are black

• Most black males are athletically built

A cultural heritage that people use to identify a particular population.

• ethnicity

• ethnic population

• race

• racial ideology

Which of the following is NOT part of the Euro-American history of racial ideology?

• A deep fascination with the movement of the black body

• Strong fears of the physical power and prowess of (oppressed) black men

• Powerful anxieties about the sexual appetites, attributes, and capabilities of (angry) black men

• Powerful anxieties about the intellectual dominance of black men.

Why do young people, from all racial backgrounds, make choices influenced by racial ideology?

• Most sport organizations are white-dominated, white-identified, and white-centered

• They may think in terms of “black sports” and

  “white sports.”

• There is a recent increase in racism around the globe

• all of the above

How did the football team at TC Williams help in the community overcome their prejudices?

• The team refused to play football until the community came together

• By boycotting the games until the school board ousted Coach Boone and reinstituted Coach Yoast

• Because high school football is important to American culture, once the team began to win, the town came together to cheer them on.

• Through their example of coming together at camp, the rest of the community was willing to come together

Which of the following is NOT a factor in sociological hypothesis that results in outstanding achievement in sports?

• racial ideology

• motivation to develop skills

• beliefs about biological and cultural destiny

• genetic natural abilities

Black female athletes sometimes earn to tone down their confidence and toughness so they

• won't be distracted from developing their sport skills.

• won't be seen by whites as "angry black women."

• can deceive their opponents in sports.

• make their mothers proud of them as women.

A category of people regarded as socially distinct because they share a way of life, a collective history, and a sense of themselves as a people.

• ethnicity

• ethnic population

• race

• racial ideology