Prejudice And Racism In Sports

I believe this article is very related with class. To understand the issues of race in sport and in gender, it is crucial to understand the issue of race in our communities during the past and the present times. Racism, the belief some races are inferior or superior to another race, has been present in our life for many years. And it is important to acknowledge that during some times in history it was considerate permissible by the authorities. An example of that was the case Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine (discussed in class). Another that about the same time the Apartheid, a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced