Topic: Structured Inequality: Neighborhood Sport and Race/Ethnicity
Research Question: Is sport an area of neighborhood social life where performance counts and race or ethnicity is irrelevant?
Neighborhoods in the United States are often segregated by race and have racial tensions. However, sport provides some opportunity for integration. Based on my reading for this assignment here is what seemed to be important points. Home neighborhoods matter more than sport in some instances, regardless of talent. Race and sport have become almost completely integrated. Lastly, specific neighborhoods are sought out differently by sport resulting in a very considerable difference in incline and decline in race.
"Sporting Dreams Die on the Rez" by, Daniel Eitzen is about Native Americans and Native American sports on Indian reservations. He argues each year Native American communities have a crop of very talented athletes. Many of them never leave their reservations and go on to......
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