Lecture 5– Race and Masculinity: The Sporting Black Body, Fear and ActivismPart ONE– Race, Deviance and BelongingErving GoffmanStigma: a connection to deviance produces a stigma – a negative label that compromises one’sSelf and social identityMaster Status: overlooking one’s whole identity and focusing on only the so-called deviance –this then amplifies, discredits and isolates the stigmatized bodyMobility RestrictionMax Weber:-Restrictions in mobility are derivative of social stratification in which opportunity andprivilege may be determined by class, race, gender-Broader legal and cultural institutions are often complicit with this model-Informal and formal forms of social surveillance operate as systems of inclusion orexclusion and reflect and maintain “acceptable social movementsCritical Race TheoryBen Carrington: 3 points on Critical Race Theory:1.Color-blindness: formal and informal conceptions of equality, expressed in rules thatinsist only on treatment that is universal. For example, “I don’t see race.”2.Intersectionality
