In relation to 'The Grammar of Race' by Stuart Hall, he states that naturalised representations include minority groups having a clown/entertainer component. That they have the natural and innate ability to entertain, and that athletes of colour are inherently physically talented. This goes back to the idea of African Basketball players, instead of proclaiming their dunking ability as an individually acclaimed skill, it is seen as a more inherent characteristic that is expected to exist within a whole group.
The binary opposite within this exists within White Basketball players, earlier portrayed by the film 'White Men Can't Jump', there is a societal understanding that White people have little to no jumping and dunking ability. The stereotypical expectation then becomes much less than of Black basketball players, and it leads to debasing and underestimation of the abilities of White basketball players. Hence why whenever there is a White basketball player dunking it appears as a spectacle, as if it wasn't normal and implausible. Completely adverse to when Black basketball players dunk, it is seen as a basic, normal skill.
The binary opposite within this exists within White Basketball players, earlier portrayed by the film 'White Men Can't Jump', there is a societal understanding that White people have little to no jumping and dunking ability. The stereotypical expectation then becomes much less than of Black basketball players, and it leads to debasing and underestimation of the abilities of White basketball players. Hence why whenever there is a White basketball player dunking it appears as a spectacle, as if it wasn't normal and implausible. Completely adverse to when Black basketball players dunk, it is seen as a basic, normal skill.
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