Skin in the Game
Colorism and the Subtle Operation of Stereotypes in Men's College Basketball
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2227407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven L Foy (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), R Ray (0000-0003-1735-9194, University of Maryland, College Park) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 730-785 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/707243 |
| OpenAlex | W3006374081 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 59 |
Colorism research often suffers from endogeneity issues related to human capital outcomes and researchers’ inability to compare the effects of skin tone to those of racial classification. Furthermore, colorism research focuses on intraracial differences in skin tone inequality while insufficiently considering skin tone inequality across racial groups. Using data from video broadcasts of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s annual, single-elimination Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament for the years 2000–2010, we quantitatively examine comments made by announcers about the performance, physical characteristics, and mental characteristics of players across various skin tones. Controlling for objective measures of performance, we find that announcers are more likely to discuss the performance and mental abilities of lighter-skinned players and the physical characteristics of darker-skinned players. We argue that, although the two concepts are related, skin tone is not simply a proxy for racial classification. Rather, skin tone inequality transcends traditional racial boundaries
Association (psychology) · Basketball · Econometrics · Economics · Endogeneity · Inequality · Linguistics · Proxy (statistics) · Racism · Sociology · Tone (literature) · Tournament · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports Analytics and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society
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Sport media and the cultural circulation of race/ethnicity
The State of Black Quarterback Media Depictions in the NFL
Looking the Part
The Uneven Court Floors in the NBA
The Downstream Consequences of Race-Related Managerial Job Insecurity
All the Makings of an Eventual NFL Starter
Exploring Discourses About Race/Ethnicity in a Spanish TV Football Program
How Prevalent are Colortocracies in Latin America
The cascading effects of parent (low vs. high) self-esteem
Racial associations between community demographics and club rosters in the top two tiers of English football
Dominant Narratives and Historical Perspective in Time Travel Stories
White Men Can’t Jump, but Does It Even Matter? Exit Discrimination in the NBA
Biased Interviewer Assessments of Respondent Knowledge Based on Perceptions of Skin Tone
The Future of American Blackness
What place does elite sport have for women? A scoping review of constraints
All the Right Questions
Playing With Perceptions
Inferred vision
The Paradox of Integration
From Codebooks to Promptbooks
Racial Bias in Fans and Officials
Uncle Tom's Garden
Racial Differences in the Occupational and Geographic Mobility of NCAA Division I College Basketball Assistant and Associate Head Coaches
Thicker than blood
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
Integration InterruptedTracking, Black Students, and Acting White after Brown
Kids Don't Want to Fail
Bad Boys
Biased Voices of Sports
Color Coded
The Influence of Afrocentric Facial Features in Criminal Sentencing
Perspectives on Racial Phenotypicality Bias
From Dark to Light
Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees
Running experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Frame analysis
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
Racist America
The White Racial Frame
Forming impressions from stereotypes, traits, and behaviors
Cognitive Representations of Black Americans
Black Reconstruction in America
Looking Deathworthy
Skin Tone Stratification among Black Americans, 2001-2003
White Colorism
The Persistent Problem of Colorism
The black student athlete
The Hinge
Skin Color and the Perception of Attractiveness among African Americans
Marking the boundaries of the ‘normal’ in televised sports
Basic and Applied Social Psychology
Attending to threat
Event-related potentials and the decision to shoot
Racial Mismatch
Media Frames and Displacement of Blame in the Don Imus/Rutgers Women's Basketball Team Incident
Seeing Black
The Interaction Order
Colored Perceptions
Flawed Statistical Reasoning and Misconceptions about Race and Ethnicity
Stratification by Skin Color in Contemporary Mexico
Stereotyping and favorableness in the perception of Negro faces
The Significance of Color Declines
Race, color, and income inequality across the Americas
The Significance of Color Remains
Phenotype and Schooling among Mexican Americans
Taboo
If You're Light You're Alright
Sport and Society
Racial Fluidity and Inequality in the United States
Skin Tone and Stratification in the Black Community
Racial ambiguity among the Brazilian population
The American non-dilemma
Beyond the sporting boundary
Playing through differences
Peddling sport
The Relationship Between Skin Tone and School Suspension for African Americans
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |