To begin my interpretive analysis of the first two chapters of their book, I will begin by stating a classification that I have personally received. In the opening pages of chapter number one, the authors go on to explain the misclassification of how a person's skin color, physical attributes, or origin determine their level of physical activity; Being Latino, especially coming from a Dominican background, people always assumed I was or should be good at baseball. This classification has always bothered me; firstly, simply because I hate baseball, it is for me personally one of the most boring sports on the planet, and secondly because my strongest physical ability, still at this stage of my life, is running . Throughout my high school years, people always seemed shocked when they found out I was on the track team instead of the baseball team. There was one occasion when someone said that I was a disgrace to the Dominican Republic, simply because I was not good at hitting a ball with a baseball bat. As I reflected on this idea and personal experience, I found it to be one of the strengths of the first chapter of “Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America.” This is partly because I can perhaps relate to it personally and because in the world of sports it is one of the most common things commentators rely on to explain success of a team or an individual. Besides the issue of sports and physical attributes, the authors also explain how this belief about a person's appearance has given rise to dangerous practices in the medical field. This is particularly shocking for