Week 9

Question 1

Ethnicity

Answer 1

Form of identification based on ideology of a common history and common social and cultural practices; language, religion, history

Question 2

Race

Answer 2

Socially constructed distinctions between groups of people based on physical or genetic characteristics such as skin colour, hair type and facial features

Question 3

Racial ideology and the consequences

Answer 3

• a web of ideas and beliefs that people use to give meaning to specific physical traits such ass skin colour and to evaluate people in terms of how they are classified by race
• consequence is one population dominating another

Question 4

Most cultures have had notions of racial a hierarchies but became particularly common during

Answer 4

European expansion

Question 5

Racial classification systems developed as Europeans colonized and when they realized that

Answer 5

There was physical differences between people

Question 6

Racial classification systems justify

Answer 6

Genocide, coerced religious conversion and slavery

Question 7

Colonialism gave

Answer 7

A heightened importance to race, legitimizing perceived racial superiority

Question 8

Scientific racism

Answer 8

Mis 1900s to 1900s scientists claimed that Europeans were genetically superior, societal associations between race, masculinity and sporting excellence, when they tried finding how black athletic success could be explained they searched for “abnormal natural traits” to search for a physical advantages, physical prowess existed at the expense of intelligence

Question 9

The myth of race

Answer 9

• human genome project proving that humans share 99.9% identical at a genetic level
• no group has been isolated long enough to develop sufficient differences or warrant classification of becoming a “different race”
• all species including humans have variation among their members

Question 10

Racial categories are social creations true or false

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Race is a valid biological concept True or False why

Answer 11

False
Verified by the human genome project

Question 12

Race as a social construction

Answer 12

Perceived physical differences given meaning by their social contexts

Question 13

Race is a primitive but powerful

Answer 13

Classification system

Question 14

What is the 2 category classification system

Answer 14

One drop rule, developed to ensure purity of the white race and property controlled by the white man

Question 15

In US AND CANADA race is determined by

Answer 15

Ancestry

Question 16

One drop rule

Answer 16

Black people, Virginia, Susie guilloiry Phillips

Question 17

Racial minorities experiences within physical culture are spaces structured by

Answer 17

The given era racial hierarchy

Question 18

True or false sports are sites of development and proliferation of racial ideologies

Answer 18

True

Question 19

Sports are both —— and —- of racial ideologies

Answer 19

Producers and products (dialectical thesis)

Question 20

There are advantages and disadvantages as well as negative and positive strictures to sport as a racialized athlete true or false

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Sports and racialized athletes

Answer 21

• Few other institutions showcase the achievements of visible minorities so publicly and extensively
• offer a platform for racial representation for activism
• enable cross racial interaction and cooperation

Question 22

Black athleticism is both

Answer 22

Devalued and exaggerated, athletes hard work and training devalued as an “innate biological advantage”

Question 23

Black athletes success in early 20th century attributed to and what was this a threat to

Answer 23

Unfair “natural advantages”
Threat to perceived white racial superiority

Question 24

Jack Johnson

Answer 24

Boxer in 1900s USA, first black American to hold world heavyweight weight championship and there was a desire for “the great white hope” which was the desire for a white boxer to defeat him.. did not happen

Question 25

Were the films of jacks winning matches a threat to perceived white superiority

Answer 25

Yes

Question 26

Racial ideologies and sports today

Answer 26

white athletes associated with sacrfice hard work and good character and black athletes with great natural ability and that even the general public stereotype athletes like this

Question 27

As of 2016 8% of recreational distance runners were black resulting in

Answer 27

Black Girls Run a group that allows one to make judgment of ones self and in vision themselves and see the group as a reference group
- desire to run with others who look like them ( reference group)
- foster social connection and community
- challenge statistics and dominant narrative about black women

Question 28

Who was the great white hope

Answer 28

Jim Jeffery’s