Week 8: Readings on Race and Class in College Sports
[Read the required items [⇒], and any other two items of interest in this list]
⇒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).
- Rufus E. Clement. "Racial Integration in the Field of Sports," Next Steps in Racial Desegregation in Education, Journal of Negro Education (1954).
- John C. Gaston. "The Destruction of the Young Black Male: The Impact of Popular Culture and Organized Sports," Journal of Black Studies (1986).
- Clifford Adelman. Light and Shadows on College Athletes: College Transcripts and Labor Market History (Washington, D.C.: US Department of Education, GPO, 1990).
- Luther B. Otto and Duane F. Alwin. "Athletics, Aspirations, and Attainments," Sociology of Education (1977).
- 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).
- "African Americans in College Sports: Black Teams with White Coaches," The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (2000-2001).
- Charles Fruehling Springwood and C. Richard King. "'Playing Indian': Why Native American Mascots Must End," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Opinion, November 9, 2001.
- Lindsay Bosslett. "NCAA Treads Warily in North Dakota,[Native American Mascot]," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 21, 2002.
- "The Academic Performance of Black Student Athletes at Highly Ranked Universities," The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (2003).
- C. Richard King. "Borrowing Power. Racial Metaphors and Pseudo-Indian Mascots," The New Centennial Review (2004).
- 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.
- 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).
- Joseph J. Hemmer, Jr. "Exploitation of American Indian Symbols: A First Amendment Analysis," American Indian Quarterly (2008).
- E. Bun Lee and Louis A. Browne. "African American Student Athletes and Sports Media Consumption," Journal of Black Studies (2009).
- 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).
- 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).
- Joe Barrett. "University Loses Sioux Mascot War," The Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2010.
- Libby Sander. "In Recent Hiring Spree, Black Coaches Win Big--but Still Fall Short," The Chronical of Higher Education, January 29, 2010.
- Brad Wolverton, "The Education of Dasmine Cathey," The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 2, 2012.
- Derek Van Rheenen, "Exploitation in College Sports: Race, Revenue, and Educational Reward," International Review for the Sociology of Sport (48:2013)
- Dohrmann, George. "The Inside Story of What Caused Grambling Football Players to Revolt," SI.com, October 16, 2013
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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.
- 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)
- 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)
- Krystal Beamon and Chris Messer, "Professional Sports Experiences as Contested Racial Terrain," Journal of Afro-American Studies (18:2014)
- Trevor Bopp and Michael Sagas, "Racial Tasking and the College Quarterback: Redefining the Stacking Phenomenon," Journal of Sport Management (28: 2014)
- Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson. "'Just Because I Dance Like a Ho I'm Not a Ho': Cheer leading at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender," Sociology of Sport Journal (32, 2015).
- Daniel G. Kelly II, et al. "Black Coaches and Their Perspectives on the Black Coaches and Administrators: A Qualitative Analysis" The Physical Educator (72, 2015)
- Donald H. Yee. "College Football Is Rigged Against Black Head Coaches. Fewer Than 8 Percent of Top Coaches in the Biggest Football Programs Are Black," The Washington Post, December 9, 2015
- Erin Irick, Student-Athlete Participation 1981-82--2014-15, NCAA Sports Sponsorship and Participation Rates Report, NCAA, 2015
- Grant Thomas, Jessica J. Good, and Alexi R. Gross. "Racial Athletic Stereotype Confirmation in College Football Recruiting," The Journal of Social Psychology, (155, 2015)
- Wallsten Kevin, Tatishe M. Nteta and Lauren A. McCarthy. "Racial Prejudice Is Driving Opposition to Paying College Athletes. Here’s the Evidence," The Washington Post, December 30, 2015
- Felecia Theune. "The Shrinking Presence of Black Female Student-Athletes at Historically Black Colleges and Universities," Sociology of Sport Journal (33, 2016)
- Onaje X.O. Woodbine. "Why I Quit Yale Basketball at the Top of My Game," The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 01, 2016
- Robert McCartney. "I'm Dropping My Protest of Washington’s Football Team Name," The Washington Post, May 20, 2016
- Shaun R. Harper. "Black Male Student-Athletes and Racial Inequities in NCAA Division I College Sports, 2016 Edition," University of Pennsylvania, 2016