Racial Categories:
Drawing Color Lines in Society
Snow white
Midnight black
Continuous Traits = skin color, height, brain size, nose width,
leg length, leg length ratio, # of fast twitch muscle fibers, etc.
Discrete Traits = blood type, sickle cell trait, etc.
Racial category lines can be drawn anywhere and everywhere
on this continuum! We could draw 2 or 2000 lines; our
decisions are a social decisions, not decisions based on biology.
Some people draw many; others draw few; some reject lines.
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Why have stereotypes about Native Americans persisted in U.S. sports?
Why have other ethnic stereotypes been rejected in U.S. sports?
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