Kinesiology 2250A/B Lecture 3: 3 Race and Ethnicity in Sports and PA
20 Dec 2017
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Race and ethnicity in sports and pa (unit 3, chapter 9) Can lead to systematic patterns of differential treatment. Impossible not to classify but pretty obvious how wrong you can be about a person based on looks due to socially constructed ideas. Ignoring their diversity and the fact they may have been born in canada: ethnicity can be a category for stereotyping but its more obviously a category for positive self- identification, unlike race. Whiteness became the standard against which appearance/actions of others were evaluated: no biological measurement to determine where white ends and black begins . The normal is invisible," so we tend not to think about it. Black in canada would not be considered black in brazil where approaches to racial classification are different (everyone defines race in a different way) Discrete traits = blood type, sickle cell trait, etc: biologically meaningful variations that are related to experiences of individuals and the long-term experience of the population.
