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This book examines the role of race in athletic programs in the
United States. Intercollegiate athletics remains a contested
terrain where race and racism are critical issues often absent in
the public discourse. Recently, the economic motives of
intercollegiate athletic programs and academic indiscretions have
unveiled behaviors that stand to tarnish the images of institutions
of higher education and reinforce racial stereotypes about the
intellectual inabilities of Black males. Through the lens of
Critical Race Theory (CRT), this volume analyzes sport as the
platform that reflects and reinforces ideas about race within
American culture, as well as the platform where resistance is
forged against dominant racial ideologies.
Contributions by Amy Bass, Ashley Farmer, Sarah K. Fields, Billy J.
Hawkins, Kurt Edward Kemper, Michael E. Lomax, and David K. Wiggins
In Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II: A Legacy of African
American Athletic Activism, Michael E. Lomax and Billy J. Hawkins
draw together essays that examine evolving attitudes about race,
sports, and athletic activism in the US. A follow-up to Lomax’s
Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino
Experience in an Era of Change, this second anthology links
post–World War II African American protest movements to a range
of contemporary social justice interventions. Athlete activists
have joined the ongoing pursuit for Black liberation and
self-determination in a number of ways. Contributors examine some
of these efforts, including the fight for HBCUs to enter the NCAA
basketball tournament; Harry Edwards and the boycott of the 1968
Olympic Games; and US sporting culture in the post-9/11 era. Essays
also detail topics like the protest efforts of San Francisco 49ers
quarterback Colin Kaepernick; the link between the Black Power
movement and the current Black Lives Matter movement; and the
activism of athletes like Lebron James and Naomi Osaka.
Collectively, these essays reveal a historical narrative in which
African Americans have transformed the currency of athletic
achievement into impactful political capital.
A problematic, yet uncommon, assumption among many higher education
researchers is that recruitment, retention, and engagement of
African-American males is relatively similar and stable across all
majority White colleges and universities. In fact, the harsh
reality is that selective public research universities (SPRUs) have
distinctive academic cultures that increase the difficulty of
diversifying their faculty and student populations. This book will
discuss how traditions and elitist assumptions make it very
difficult to recruit, retain, and engage African-American males.
The authors will examine these issues from multiple perspectives in
three sections that highlight research, policies and practices
impacting the experiences of African American males, including
Pre-Collegiate Preparation, African American Male Student Athletes,
and Undergraduate and Graduate Considerations for African American
Male Initiatives.
A problematic, yet uncommon, assumption among many higher education
researchers is that recruitment, retention, and engagement of
African-American males is relatively similar and stable across all
majority White colleges and universities. In fact, the harsh
reality is that selective public research universities (SPRUs) have
distinctive academic cultures that increase the difficulty of
diversifying their faculty and student populations. This book will
discuss how traditions and elitist assumptions make it very
difficult to recruit, retain, and engage African-American males.
The authors will examine these issues from multiple perspectives in
three sections that highlight research, policies and practices
impacting the experiences of African American males, including
Pre-Collegiate Preparation, African American Male Student Athletes,
and Undergraduate and Graduate Considerations for African American
Male Initiatives.
Contributions by Amy Bass, Ashley Farmer, Sarah K. Fields, Billy J.
Hawkins, Kurt Edward Kemper, Michael E. Lomax, and David K. Wiggins
In Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II: A Legacy of African
American Athletic Activism, Michael E. Lomax and Billy J. Hawkins
draw together essays that examine evolving attitudes about race,
sports, and athletic activism in the US. A follow-up to Lomax’s
Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino
Experience in an Era of Change, this second anthology links
post–World War II African American protest movements to a range
of contemporary social justice interventions. Athlete activists
have joined the ongoing pursuit for Black liberation and
self-determination in a number of ways. Contributors examine some
of these efforts, including the fight for HBCUs to enter the NCAA
basketball tournament; Harry Edwards and the boycott of the 1968
Olympic Games; and US sporting culture in the post-9/11 era. Essays
also detail topics like the protest efforts of San Francisco 49ers
quarterback Colin Kaepernick; the link between the Black Power
movement and the current Black Lives Matter movement; and the
activism of athletes like Lebron James and Naomi Osaka.
Collectively, these essays reveal a historical narrative in which
African Americans have transformed the currency of athletic
achievement into impactful political capital.
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