04/14/20: Chapter 6 Sports/Race

When it comes to sports there is much so a social construction especially in societies minds. We associate certain sports with certain kinds of people and then we make up our own explanation on why exactly that is just. For example when we think of basketball majority of us associate the “ideal” player being African American and tall. According to 1948 there was an all white basketball team which was the Boston Celtics this also had to due with the fact that their was racial inequality which means that their was. reasons there was no color on that team. When it comes to many sports there are a certain social capital associated with the sport so when we look at football in comparison to lacrosse we know that one is reasonably priced and the other will be extremely expensive . Comparing 1948 to 2020 we see how they bridged the social capital and are able to mix the two we look at basketball teams today and we realize that the teams are not racially mixed . This bridging can also of occurred because of the fans we see today with many teams fans they are culturally mixed although there is some type of construction in thinking like for example if someone is a Denver Bronco fan typically they are from Colorado but then there is me who is a team of the Broncos and was born and raised in California. Now there is so much diversity that even when we look at things such as the census we see that there are so many different types of a particular race someone associates themselves with. Now I feel like we have came so far from where we have been before although there is still racial division is sports especially with having the one up exactly as some races do because of how society sees a race and will associate it but at the end of the day we are extremely diverse. There is also many stepping stones when someone is in the sports popularity when we look at Michael Jordan his shoes are still in high demand of today and he is seen as an icon similar to Kobe Bryant.