Race and Sport

Question 1

What are some examples of microaffirmations to counter discrimination?

Answer 1

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Question 2

How does boxing and/or the NBA replicate racist practices of child labour?

Answer 2

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Question 3

Know some events from the history of boxing that show how it is connected to racism.

Answer 3

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Question 4

Race is not ____ but a ____ construct.

Answer 4

• biological

- social

Question 5

Race as a social construct does not mean there are no _____ differences, but the ______ into which people are placed are socially constructed.

Answer 5

• physiological

- categories

Question 6

Colour-blind ideology:

Answer 6

denies that race, and thus racism, is an issue any longer

Question 7

Meritocracy:

Answer 7

people rise to the level of their own ability and talent (merit based reward system)

Question 8

Obsessing on race will not allow us to move ____ race. ____ and _____ will dissolve racism faster than ____ and ____.

Answer 8

• beyond
• perspiration
• teamwork
• therapy
• dialogue

Question 9

Describe diversity in the NBA:

Answer 9

• majority of players are African-American
• Majority of owners are White
• Majority of league office staff is white
• Head coaches about 50/50

Question 10

Veiled racism:

Answer 10

• sanitized language that looks on the surface to support liberal values (cultural, equality, freedom, choice, democracy)
• couched in multicultural frames: “it’s about culture not race”
• intent: I didn’t mean to be therefore I’m not racist
• claim that racism is over
• comes with the fear whites feel about losing power in society
• employs common terms that seem unconnected to racism

Question 11

Instead of talking about race, people now talk about ____ differences. _____ is used to show how everything is equal and we have ____ of _____. So if there are differences, these must come about because some people don’t ….

Answer 11

• cultural
• democracy
• freedom of choice
• work as hard

Question 12

When combined with _____ _____, possible negative subject positions for ____ decrease even more.

Answer 12

• sexual orientation

- women

Question 13

3 types of microagressions:

Answer 13

• microinvalidations
• microassaults
• microinsults

Question 14

Microaffirmations:

Answer 14

apparently small acts, which are often ephemeral and hard-to-see, events that are public and private, often unconscious but very effective, which occur whenever people wish to help others succeed