SOC 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Williams Sisters, 2010 Winter Olympics, Immigration Law
9 Nov 2015
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Think critically to analyse approaches and use concepts and make more sense of issues of race and ethnicity in sports culture. Based in physical characteristics such as skin colour. People in a given race group are categorized due to similar genetic code. Its used to create divisions between races due to your skin colour. It has real life consequences based on race, it can be advantageous and disadvantageous in situations in life. He made a statement in showing that he is mixed not just one race. But people just see him as a black person due to his skin colour. So people like tiger woods have no identity because of the way we socially construct skin tones. Obama another example (black president but he is half white) Of a certain group of people and its not just based on biology. Based of cultural background, language, ways of life, historical experiences and religions.
