Systematic Environmental Racism and Injustice: Title IX Black Female Sports Inequality

Abstract: Title IX legislation concerning sports accessibility is marginalized for Black female youth and women. Current legislation fails to acknowledge the intersectional basis of the needs and participation of Black female youth and women as it does for gender alone. Systematic environmental factors, e.g., racism, have resulted in environmental injustices. In the context of the Critical Race Theory Doctrine of Intersectionality, there is an attempt to incorporate the real-life experiences of an outsider group—in this case, Black women—into equitable sports opportunities, which this discourse explores in the context of Title IX, situating Black women’s experiences in race and gender.