Chapter 8
After racial and ethnic exclusion has been eliminated on sports teams, intergroup relations cease to be an issue on those teams.
False
Global patterns and trends indicate that challenges related to race and sports are limited mostly to the United States.
False
Native Americans usually receive royalties or rights fees when sports teams use their names and images as a basis for nicknames, logos, and mascots.
False
Racial ideology in the United States has discouraged many black males from playing sports and making sports important in their lives.
False
Rates of sports participation across all sports are much higher among blacks than they are among whites in the United States.
False
Research shows that due to persistent racism, the sports experiences of Asian Pacific Americans are much the same regardless of their different immigration histories.
False
The author predicts that scientists will eventually find a single gene that accounts for jumping ability in human beings.
False
When sociologists study sports, they define race and ethnicity in the same way and make no distinctions between them.
False
Before Jackie Robinson played for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, Latino baseball players had done much to erode resistance to racial desegregation in Major League Baseball.
True
Due to norms that exist in US culture, some black women monitor their appearance and their expressions of confidence and intelligence so they don't appear "too black."
True
Racial ideology in the United States has been based on the idea that whiteness is a colorless standard that represents "normal" when it comes to social relationships and evaluating people.
True
Research indicates that if we want to understand the meanings that people give to the skin color of human beings, "race" should be viewed as a social concept rather than a biological concept.
True
The people most likely to resist the social and cultural changes needed to deal effectively with ethnic relations in sports are those who benefit the most from dominant racial ideology in the society.
True
The sports least likely to be desegregated are those that involve social relationships between participants and members of participants' families.
True
