ABSTRACT
This chapter explains race and critically examines how the ideology has exacerbated the British Asian football exclusion. It explores race within sport, and specifically, will critically examine constructions of biological difference between the white norm and the Asian frame. The concept of race is one of the most difficult theoretical terms to explain and fully understand. Rex posits that race and racism challenges the conscience of the sociologist in the same way as the problem of nuclear weapons challenges that of the nuclear physicist. During colonial times, Social Darwinist ideas spread and were used to justify the differential treatment of others. The colonised peoples were placed into raced groups such as Africans, North American Indians and Indians. Feagin and Cobas provide a historical overview of the concept of racial framing within a US context.
