Deviant Exploitation of Black Male Student Athletes on White Campuses

Murty, Komanduri S.; Roebuck, Julian B.

doi:10.1080/01639625.2014.935691

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“…Religion is a taboo subject of conversation among elite athletes, contributing to social isolation of athletes from minority religious backgrounds. Racial disparities—including those related to exploitation, player-coach tension, and prejudicial treatment—along with socioeconomic inequities form barriers that prevent equal opportunities 80…”

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Mental health symptoms and disorders in elite athletes: a systematic review on cultural influencers and barriers to athletes seeking treatment

Castaldelli-Maia¹,

Gallinaro²,

Falcão³

et al. 2019

Br J Sports Med

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ObjectiveTo summarise the literature on the barriers to athletes seeking mental health treatment and cultural influencers of mental health in elite athletes.DesignSystematic reviewData sourcesPubMed, Cochrane, Scopus, SportDiscus (Ebsco), and PsycINFO (ProQuest) up to November 2018.Eligibility criteria for selecting studiesQualitative and quantitative original studies of elite athletes (those who competed at the professional, Olympic, or collegiate/university levels), published in any language.ResultsStigma, low mental health literacy, negative past experiences with mental health treatment-seeking, busy schedules, and hypermasculinity are barriers to elite athletes seeking mental health treatment. Cultural influencers of mental health in elite athletes include: (1) the lack of acceptance of women as athletes; (2) lower acceptability of mental health symptoms and disorders among non-white athletes; (3) non-disclosure of religious beliefs; and (4) higher dependence on economic benefits. Coaches have an important role in supporting elite athletes in obtaining treatment for mental illness. Brief anti-stigma interventions in elite athletes decrease stigma and improve literary about mental health.ConclusionThere is a need for various actors to provide more effective strategies to overcome the stigma that surrounds mental illness, increase mental health literacy in the athlete/coach community, and address athlete-specific barriers to seeking treatment for mental illness. In this systematic review, we identified strategies that, if implemented, can overcome the cultural factors that may otherwise limit athletes seeking treatment. Coaches are critical for promoting a culture within elite athletes’ environments that encourages athletes to seek treatment.

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Mental health symptoms and disorders in elite athletes: a systematic review on cultural influencers and barriers to athletes seeking treatment

Castaldelli-Maia¹,

Gallinaro²,

Falcão³

et al. 2019

Br J Sports Med

168

121

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“…Racial disparities—including those involving exploitation, player–coach tension, prejudicial treatment and microaggressions—in addition to socioeconomic inequities, form barriers that may prevent equal opportunities 650–654. For example, access to wealth has predicted participation and success at the Olympic Games 655.…”

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Mental health in elite athletes: International Olympic Committee consensus statement (2019)

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Mental health symptoms and disorders are common among elite athletes, may have sport related manifestations within this population and impair performance. Mental health cannot be separated from physical health, as evidenced by mental health symptoms and disorders increasing the risk of physical injury and delaying subsequent recovery. There are no evidence or consensus based guidelines for diagnosis and management of mental health symptoms and disorders in elite athletes. Diagnosis must differentiate character traits particular to elite athletes from psychosocial maladaptations.Management strategies should address all contributors to mental health symptoms and consider biopsychosocial factors relevant to athletes to maximise benefit and minimise harm. Management must involve both treatment of affected individual athletes and optimising environments in which all elite athletes train and compete. To advance a more standardised, evidence based approach to mental health symptoms and disorders in elite athletes, an International Olympic Committee Consensus Work Group critically evaluated the current state of science and provided recommendations.

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“…Eitle (2005) found that high school football players had fewer family and socioeconomic resources than peers who did not play sports (see also Eitle and Eitle, 2002). Murty et al (2014) found that over half of black Division I college football players came from low socioeconomic family backgrounds. Conchas et al’s (2014) study of African American high school boys in urban California found that their low-resource hometown environment generated awareness of constraints on mobility and nurtured perceptions of sport as an available and desirable pathway.…”

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“…This study addresses the lack of research on race, sport, attainment, and mobility (Carrington, 2013; Dubrow and Adams, 2012). Studies have examined the socioeconomic backgrounds of athletes and their families of origin (Dubrow and Adams, 2012; Murty et al, 2014), but have less commonly looked at hometown socioeconomic or demographic indicators. In this paper, we ask how hometowns contribute to the representation of black and white athletes in college and professional football in the United States.…”

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A comparison of hometown socioeconomics and demographics for black and white elite football players in the US

Allison

Davis

Barranco

2016

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Despite widespread perceptions of elite US sport as meritocratic, there is little empirical research on the social origins of those who play college and professional sports in the US or how these vary by race. We use the case of American football, linking Entertainment and Sports Programming Network's national recruit rankings data on incoming college football players from 2007-2016 (N=929) with 2000 US Census data. Our study compares hometown socioeconomic and demographic indicators for black and white college athletes and then for those drafted into the National Football League. Findings show that the socioeconomic and demographic profiles of the hometowns producing elite football athletes vary by both athlete race and draft status. Black draftees come from denser, more socioeconomically disadvantaged and blacker hometowns than black non-drafted athletes, while white draftees come from less socioeconomically disadvantaged hometowns than white non-drafted athletes.

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Deviant Exploitation of Black Male Student Athletes on White Campuses

Cited by 13 publications

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Mental health symptoms and disorders in elite athletes: a systematic review on cultural influencers and barriers to athletes seeking treatment

Mental health symptoms and disorders in elite athletes: a systematic review on cultural influencers and barriers to athletes seeking treatment

Mental health in elite athletes: International Olympic Committee consensus statement (2019)

A comparison of hometown socioeconomics and demographics for black and white elite football players in the US

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