ABSTRACT
This chapter provides evidence that racism in aspects of sport remains a contemporary problem in many parts of the world. It outlines some key concepts, definitions and legislation that have been used to explain the relationship between sport, racism and ethnicity. The chapter explores the impact of post-colonialism and other bodies of work highlighting racism as a consideration, in both a socio-economic and geopolitical sense, and rejects the argument that identity in sport is enough. It suggests that future studies of sport, racism and ethnicity might consider the way in which sport potentially helps to develop human and economic capabilities. Sport has been explicitly involved with campaigns, activism, policies and protests aimed at discrediting racism and the power of colonialism. The struggle for sport has involved drawing attention to the fact that, up until the 1960s, many black people and other peoples of colour in the US were still denied human and civil rights.
