Reflect on the theory of intersectionality and how to use it to make sense of how race and gender intersect to present complex and contradictory meanings of athletic bodies. What arethe different cultural understandings of athleticism for different configurations of racialized and gendered bodies (e.g., what bodies are capable of achieving athletically, public perceptions of athletic abilities by race)?please do incorporate the followingZirin’s discussion of the history of racial difference in American sports inform your understanding of the historical perceptions of athletes’ bodies differently based on racial identity ( http://www.mediaed.org/transcripts/Race-Power-and-American-Sports-Transcript.pdf)The cases of Caster Semenya and Michelle Dumaresq and how they demonstrate how sports institutions engage in practices of gender policingHow the cases of Semenya and Dumaresq highlight Messner’s ideas that athletic women’s bodies are constructed in contradictory ways by mass media (so, how does race play a factor in how they were treated or how society views White and Black women differently)