Major Leagues Colonized The Black And Latin Game By Rob Ruck

The Colonization of Black and Latino Baseball: An Analysis of the Dominance of White Hegemonic Sporting Culture in American Society in Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game by Rob Ruck

This historical study will define the dominance of white hegemonic sporting culture in American society that exploited and “colonized" black and Latino baseball in Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game by Rob Ruck. Ruck's (2011) analysis of American sporting culture defines the role of African Americans and Latinos in making baseball a popular sport, yet the white hegemonic culture in American society exploited their racial characteristics in comparison to white athletes. In some cases, the amount of

Historically, the popularity of the Negro and Latino Leagues soon threatened the profitability of the Major League baseball, which forced them to allow Jackie Robinson to become the first colored player into the Major leagues in 1947. Ruck’s analysis of minorities in baseball is closely linked with the “colonialist” view of minorities as being unworthy of self-government or being participants in white society in American sporting

This trend kept occurring until Jackie Robinsons would allowed into Major League baseball, but the salaries given to minority players was often far les than those given to white players. This trend occurred well into the 1970s, nearly 30 years after WWII. Eventually, Major league baseball had nearly 27% minority players, which, initially, enough, kept reducing well into the 1980s. These labor trends are a major part of the “colonial” values of the white hegemonic power of American government and sporting institutions to exploit minorities through foreign policy initiatives , but also within the context of employment when it came to professional