According to Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, how has racism changed in America? Be sure to discuss how racism is defined and what is meant by the terms Jim Crow Racism and Color-blind Racism. What evidence do we have of the continuing significance of race in sports? Cite one example. What evidence do we have that race has declined in significance in the world of sports? Cite one example. In your opinion, do sports serve as a model for positive race relations in the U.S.? Defend your answer.
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Jeanne Hored
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December 13, 2010
You might think that in 2010 racism isn’t an issue. When we watch television, go on the internet or listen to the radio, we are being fed racist stereotypes and idelogies. For my Ethics class I wrote a paper concerning athletes and the media. The question I was researching was “how does the media negatively portray Black male athletes differently from White male athletes?” I used Tiger Woods and Michael Phelps as my examples. Moreover, I examined blogs, newspaper articles and any type of media to see how those athletes were being represented.
One interesting thing that I found out was that Black athletes were categorized as “good blacks” and “bad blacks” based on a sociological journal by Brian Wilson. A “good black” was described as a disadvantaged, African-American who takes advantage of opportunities that’s given to them, in order to better his or her life. A “bad black” was an African-American who had run in the law, or who did not seize the opportunities to further his or her life. Furthermore, according to my research, the media portrays Black and White athletes as the brawn versus brain scenario (Hall 2002). Black athletes are seen as only muscle, while White athletes are seen as the brains. The brawn versus brain scenario explains that Black athletes are successful because of their physical attributes; while white athletes are successful because of their intellect.
Woods as we all know was involved in a scandal, that tarnished his image. He lost millions, while his endorsers felt he wasn’t the “right representative.” Phelps however, was captured smoking marijuana and his endorsments apologized for dropping him from their campaign. If Phelps was Black, would he be able to get away with what he did?
What I learned from this research project is that the sports economy has a significant impact on society. One major topic and impact on the economy is the building of new stadiums. Almost half of the research I had done was based on sports stadiums and how it affects society. Even though sports stadiums take a lot of money out of the government, it goes right back into the government with the profit it makes from people buying tickets and merchandise to watch their favorite teams. And not only did I learn about money going back into the government, but also the business world. I learned that even in stocks, sports takes a big part of that too.
ReplyDeleteThe research that I had done was on the economy of sports and how it affects society. Well for this topic I researched most of the time on databases online. It was kind of hard researching this topic, but most of the time I would get articles on sports stadiums. So that’s when I began to research sports stadiums a little more and look up how it affected the economy of people. But I tried not to focus just strictly on stadiums because if that was the case I would have made that my research topic. So I tried too research other things such as buying sports merchandise and also business in sports. Which I think these aspects helped with my research and gave it a variety on how sports economy affects the society in different ways.
I think that the sports economy is probably one of the most profitable economies in the world. With all the money that is spent everyday on merchandise, tickets, sports magazines, sports video games, sports stadiums, and etc there is no doubt in my mind that money is profited. I feel that also people spend a lot of money unnecessarily on pointless things in sports. Me as a sports fan I love to support my team and buy some of their merchandise, but as far as buying season tickets and buying everything possible to support your team I feel that’s too much. Spending all that money on a team that probably won’t even give back to you besides maybe winning games and championships is not worth it. I think to help our economy as a whole we should spend our money more wisely and not spend too much on the teams we love so much.
I think that people should watch their money more wisely and spend it on more important things rather than just sports. Even though for many people such as myself, sports has a major impact on us in and out of our days. But as people I feel we need to put a boundary between our economic lives and sports. Because easily that line could be broken. In stead of people spending money on jerseys and tickets, people should be spending money on household things and family. Sports needs to be put third behind family and our economy. And if we can’t do that than we will always put ourselves in a hole economically.
What I learned from this research project is that the sports economy has a significant impact on society. One major topic and impact on the economy is the building of new stadiums. Almost half of the research I had done was based on sports stadiums and how it affects society. Even though sports stadiums take a lot of money out of the government, it goes right back into the government with the profit it makes from people buying tickets and merchandise to watch their favorite teams. And not only did I learn about money going back into the government, but also the business world. I learned that even in stocks, sports takes a big part of that too.
ReplyDeleteI think that the sports economy is probably one of the most profitable economies in the world. With all the money that is spent everyday on merchandise, tickets, sports magazines, sports video games, sports stadiums, and etc there is no doubt in my mind that money is profited. I feel that also people spend a lot of money unnecessarily on pointless things in sports. Me as a sports fan I love to support my team and buy some of their merchandise, but as far as buying season tickets and buying everything possible to support your team I feel that’s too much. Spending all that money on a team that probably won’t even give back to you besides maybe winning games and championships is not worth it. I think to help our economy as a whole we should spend our money more wisely and not spend too much on the teams we love so much.
I think that people should watch their money more wisely and spend it on more important things rather than just sports. Even though for many people such as myself, sports has a major impact on us in and out of our days. But as people I feel we need to put a boundary between our economic lives and sports. Because easily that line could be broken. In stead of people spending money on jerseys and tickets, people should be spending money on household things and family. Sports needs to be put third behind family and our economy. And if we can’t do that than we will always put ourselves in a hole economically.