Race and Ethics in the 1960s: Race and Sports

When the social science of game developed as a sub-teach in the fields of sociology and physical training throughout the 1960s, race and racial relations pulled in immediate attention from researchers and social activists. Two researchers’ publications in the early 1960s focused on the sociological progress underlying the integration of professional baseball; however the most provocative discussions of race and game were distributed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by sociologist-dissident Harry Edwards, coordinator of the boycott by black U.S. athletes of the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City. Edwards' book, The Revolt of the black Athlete, published in 1969, obviously depicted the prohibition and abuse of blacks in games and challenged popular suspicions that games were free of prejudice and provided African Americans with chances for upward social versatility and social acceptance in the public arena at large. Edwards' work was complimented by the composition of other researcher activists and created further in his Human science of Sport (1973), the first textbook in the field. Edwards (1971) likewise was the most noticeable humanist to scrutinize a widely-read article in Sports Illustrated, a real week by week sport magazine, in which a sports writer contended that blacks were physiologically better than whites and that the victory of blacks in specific sports was due their natural abilities as athletes.

EARLY RESEARCH ON RACE AND SPORTS

In the meantime that Edwards and other researcher activists were composing in popular sources and freely debating issues related with race and sports, researchers in various disciplines started research that factually reported examples of racial isolation and separation in sports a...

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...ficant group baseball. Using performance information from1953 through 1965, he found that dark players beat white players throughout every season. His discoveries were backed by other people who considered baseball, football at the school and professional levels, and b-ball on both the intercollegiate and professional levels.

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