Intercollegiate Sports in America, 1900-2015
 

Spring 2015

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Race and College Sports


 Required Reading
Read at least two in addition to the required items.

Howard J. Savage, et. al. "Athletic Participation and its Results," American College Athletics (New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1929) pp. 104-134.
Howard J. Savage, et. al. "The Recruiting and Subsidizing of Athletes," American College Athletics (New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1929) pp. 224-265.
David Riesman and Reuel Denney. "Football in America: A Study in Culture Diffusion," American Quarterly (1951).

  1. Rufus E. Clement. "Racial Integration in the Field of Sports," Next Steps in Racial Desegregation in Education, Journal of Negro Education (1954).
  2. Luther B. Otto and Duane F. Alwin. "Athletics, Aspirations, and Attainments," Sociology of Education (1977).
  3. John C. Gaston. "The Destruction of the Young Black Male: The Impact of Popular Culture and Organized Sports," Journal of Black Studies (1986).
  4. Clifford Adelman. Light and Shadows on College Athletes: College Transcripts and Labor Market History (Washington, D.C.: US Department of Education, GPO, 1990).
  5. "African Americans in College Sports: Black Teams with White Coaches," The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (2000-2001).
  6. "The Academic Performance of Black Student Athletes at Highly Ranked Universities," The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (2003).
  7. John N. Singer. "Benefits and Detriments of African American Male Athletes' Participation in a Big-Time College Football Program," International Review for the Sociology of Sport (2008).
  8. E. Bun Lee and Louis A. Browne. "African American Student Athletes and Sports Media Consumption," Journal of Black Studies (2009).
  9. Eugenio Mercurio and Vincent F. Filak. "Roughing the Passer: The Framing of Black and White Quarterbacks Prior to the NFL Draft," Howard Journal of Communications (2010).
  10. Jacob C. Day and Steve McDonald. "Not so Fast, My Friend: Social Capital and the Race Disparity in Promotions among College Football Coaches," Sociological Spectrum (2010).
  11. Libby Sander. "In Recent Hiring Spree, Black Coaches Win Big--but Still Fall Short," The Chronical of Higher Education, January 29, 2010.
  12. Brad Wolverton, "The Education of Dasmine Cathey," The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 2, 2012.
  13. Shaun R. Harper, Collin D. Williams Jr., and Horatio W. Blackman, "Black Male Student-Athletes and Racial Inequities in NCAA Division I College Sports," Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education, 2013.
  14. Robbins, Daniel W., Tyler L. Goodale, Frank E. Kuzmits, and Arthur J. Adams, "Changes in the Athletic Profile of Elite College American Football Players," Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (27:4, 861–874) 2013.
  15. Dohrmann, George. "The Inside Story of What Caused Grambling Football Players to Revolt," SI.com, October 16, 2013.
  16. Irick, Erin. NCAA Sports Sponsorship and Participation Rates Report: 1981-82 – 2010-11, NCAA, 2011
  17. Krystal Beamon and Chris Messer, "Professional Sports Experiences as Contested Racial Terrain," Journal of Afro-American Studies (18:2014).
  18. Derek Van Rheenen, "Exploitation in College Sports: Race, Revenue, and Educational Reward," International Review for the Sociology of Sport (48:2013).
  19. Gregory A. Cranmera, Nicholas D. Bowmana, Rebecca M. Chorya, and Keith D. Weber, "Race as an Antecedent Condition in the Framing of Heisman Finalists," Howard Journal of Communications (25:2, 2014).
  20. Lisa Kihl, Sally Shaw, and Vicki Schull, "Fear, Anxiety, and Loss of Control: Analyzing an Athletic Department Merger as a Gendered Political Process," Journal of Sport Management (27:2013).
  21. Nefertiti A. Walker and Melanie L. Sartore-Baldwin, "Hegemonic Masculinity and the Institutionaiized Bias Toward Women in Men's Coiiegiate Basketbali: What do Men Think?" Journal of Sport Management (27:2013).
  22. Trevor Bopp and Michael Sagas, "Racial Tasking and the College Quarterback: Redefining the Stacking Phenomenon," Journal of Sport Management (28: 2014).

The Native American Symbol Controversy

  1. Mark R. Connolly. "What's in a Name?: A Historical Look at Native American-Related Nicknames and Symbols at Three U.S. Universities," The Journal of Higher Education (2000).
  2. Charles Fruehling Springwood and C. Richard King. "'Playing Indian': Why Native American Mascots Must End," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Opinion, November 9, 2001.
  3. Lindsay Bosslett. "NCAA Treads Warily in North Dakota,[Native American Mascot]," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 21, 2002.
  4. C. Richard King. "Borrowing Power. Racial Metaphors and Pseudo-Indian Mascots," The New Centennial Review (2004).
  5. Eric Wills. "Pride or Prejudice? Some Colleges Back Away from Using American Indian Names and Mascots for Athletics Teams, While Others Defend Them," The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 3, 2005.
  6. Joseph J. Hemmer, Jr. "Exploitation of American Indian Symbols: A First Amendment Analysis," American Indian Quarterly (2008).
  7. Joe Barrett. "University Loses Sioux Mascot War," The Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2010.
  8. Jessica M. Toglia and Othello Harris, "Alumni Perceptions of a University's Decision to Remove Native American Imagery From Its Athletic Program: A Case Study," Journal of Sport and Social Issues ( 2014 38: 291).

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