Are We Welcome? African American Racial Acceptance in Leisure Activities and the Importance Given to Children's Leisure

Barriers to Swimming and Water Safety Education for African Americans

“…Quantitative studies are unable to tell us why one group of people chooses one leisure activity over another (Barnett, 2006;Floyd, 1998;Floyd & Shinew, 1999;Floyd, Shinew, McGuire, & Noe, 1994;Hibbler & Shinew, 2002;Lee, Scott, & Floyd, 2001;Philipp, 1997Philipp, , 1999Philipp, , 2000Shinew, Floyd, & Parry, 2004;Wolch & Zhang, 2004).…”

Transforming Mount Airy into Mayberry: Film-Induced Tourism as Place-Making

“…In fact, North Carolina is the third most visited state by African American travelers (Mandala Research 2011). Research has found that feelings of racial acceptance directly affect the tourism choices of African Americans (Philipp 1999). Mayberry also potentially marginalizes some white tourists who, because of their generational and racial attitudes, wish to connect with a different social image of the region, one that matches their own diverse life experiences and political perceptions of the post-Civil Rights South.…”

A walk in the woods: the effects of ethnicity, social class, and gender among urban Norwegian adolescents

“…One additional mechanism that helps to create ethnic differences in leisure participation or activity preferences is discrimination (Philipp, 1999). For example, specific places where minorities are not welcome to recreate exist, and it is well known that participation in some leisure activities is restricted to the ethnic majority group (e.g., Gobster, 1998;Johnson et al, 1998).…”