Rubin, L.M. (2016). The detrimental effects of big-time college sports on black student-athletes’ academic success. Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education, 10(3), 185-198. The pressures of big-time college sports coupled with NCAA academic legislation set up a system of inequality among student-athletes to achieve academic success. Blackman (2008)… Continue Reading The Detrimental Effects of Big-Time College Sports on Black Student-Athletes’ Academic Success
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‘Six packs and big muscles, and stuff like that’. Primary school-aged South African boys, black
Bhana, D. (2008). ‘six packs and big muscles, and stuff like that’. primary school-aged south african boys, black. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 29(1), 3. This paper explores the salience of sport in the lives of eight-year-old and nine-year-old South African primary school boys. Drawing on ethnographic and interview… Continue Reading ‘Six packs and big muscles, and stuff like that’. Primary school-aged South African boys, black
African American Male College Athletes’ Narratives on Education and Racism
Singer, J. N. (2016, October 4). African American Male College Athletes’ Narratives on Education and Racism. Urban Education, 51(9), 1065-1095. This study presents narrative case study vignettes of three elite African American male football athletes at a major historically White institution of higher education with a big-time athletics department. More… Continue Reading African American Male College Athletes’ Narratives on Education and Racism