Reflection 5
1. Describe cultural and commodity racism.
How can cultural and commodity racism explain the continued use of Native American Mascots?
2. Can cultural and commodity racism help explain individual acts of racial bias towards athletes?
Carpenter, (2016) “It’s only working for the white kids: American soccer’s diversity problem”:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/jun/01/us-soccer-diversity-problem-world-football
Vargas (2022) “US Latinos are soccer-mad. Why isn’t that reflected in the World Cup squad?”:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/15/usmnt-qatar-world-cup-2022-soccer-latino-players
“Whatever happened to the white athlete?”:
https://vault.si.com/vault/1997/12/08/what-ever-happened-to-the-white-athlete-unsure-of-his-place-in-a-sports-world-dominated-by-blacks-who-are-hungrier-harder-working-and-perhaps-physiologically-superior-the-young-white-male-is-dropping-out-of-the-athletic-mainstr
