SOCA02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anita Hill, Floyd Patterson, Flight Attendant
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Brym: chapter 10: race and ethnic: apply to sports and social control. Arthur ash: bigger court than his opponents playing tennis. This is breaking down now, in the year 2000, intermarriage rates prove how well a race is accepted in society. African americans do not have a lot of interracial marriages. Minorities overrepresented in sport: why are minorities typically overrepresented, because they lack other opportunities, because performance is easily measured. Boxing: oldest sport, bronze age pottery, byron = boxing favourite of aristocrats = sport of the aristocrats, they hired boxers and watched boxing, downhill since because of political correctness = horrible, bad, lower class sport. Heavyweight champ: pinnacle of the sport form the underclass, given leeway: excuse/neutralize, tolerate deviance. They did not stop itfor 18-20 rounds. Joe louis and floyd patterson: 30 years before any black have any shots to win, sonny liston, ali: was not carrying the white mans name, he is hated.
