Labor, Resources, and Interest Convergence in the Organized Resistance of Black Male Student-Athletes

Ferguson, Tomika L.; Davis, Charles H.F.

doi:10.4324/9780429449178-5

Cited by 11 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Despite sportsand college athletics, in particularbeing hailed as sites for ameliorating racial discord and/or inequality (Hextrum, 2021a(Hextrum, , 2018Hirko, 2009), racial and gender issues remain endemic to intercollegiate athletics as racist and sexist ideologies and practices are promoted to external audiences through sport (Haslerig et al, 2019;Hextrum, 2020a;2020b;Hextrum & Sethi, 2022). Furthermore, scholars have critiqued the racist and inequitable economic structure(s) of college athletics, from the governing principle of college sports, i.e., amateurism, that denies legal labor rights and protections (Ferguson & Davis, 2019;Grenardo, 2016;Staurowsky, 2014), to reliance on unpaid labor to generate revenue (Gayles et al, 2018;Hawkins, 2013). The overrepresentation of Black men in the most visible portions of athletic departments, i.e., revenuegenerating sports, can obscure the fact that 80-90% of athletes, coaches, staff, and administrators are white (Lapchick, 2020).…”

Section: Symbolism and Intervention Through College Athleticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sport is often a site and symbol for broader fights for racial justice (Cooper et al, 2019;Ferguson & Davis, 2019;Hoffman, 2020;Jolly et al, 2021). However, when athletes use their platforms to draw attention to these national movements, a fallacious narrative often emerges that racial injustices are primarily external to sport.…”

Section: Symbolism and Intervention Through College Athleticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Interventions in Support of Anti-Racist Praxis in Athletics

Siduri Haslerig,

Kirsten Hextrum

2024

JHEAI

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Since the 1990s, college athletic departments have developed parallel and redundant student services that are specific to athletics, ostensibly to broaden the accessibility of these resources for athletes (Smith, 2011). However, this insularity can create echo chambers and totalize institutional norms (Comeaux, 2018; Hatteberg, 2013). Previous research has documented that many athletics practitioners, even those in student-facing roles, are neither trained as educators nor student affairs professionals (Navarro et al., 2015). Additionally, athletics practitioners are often untrained and unprepared to address racial equity topics and have little prior experience working with racially diverse students and coworkers (Bernhard & Haslerig, 2017). This article discusses two efforts to better prepare anti-racist athletics practitioners: one at the graduate level with students working as athletics graduate assistants (GAs) and pre-professional graduate students and a second with current athletics staff and administrators. Through the lenses of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Critical Whiteness Studies, we discuss the need, development, and theory of change undergirding these two interventions implemented at the University of Oklahoma and offer suggestions of how other universities and athletic departments could approach and/or implement similar programming.

show abstract

Section: Symbolism and Intervention Through College Athleticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Symbolism and Intervention Through College Athleticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interventions in Support of Anti-Racist Praxis in Athletics

Siduri Haslerig,

Kirsten Hextrum

2024

JHEAI

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…While these efforts have often taken place at the professional level, collegiate athletes have increasingly used their position on college campuses to encourage political and social change as well (Kluch, 2020). For example, in 2015, the University of Missouri's team protested discriminatory practices and racist actions on their campus (Ferguson & Davis, 2019;Yan et al, 2018) and football players at Northwestern University led an unsuccessful attempt to unionize (Strauss, 2015). Other prominent examples of collegiate athletes utilizing their platform for social change include football players at the University of Texas leading efforts for numerous campus changes (Davis, 2020), basketball players at the University of Washington launching initiatives that focus on prison and criminal justice reform (Kirschman, 2020), and calls by athletes at the University of Texas and University of Washington to eliminate controversial landmarks, many of which celebrated the country's racist past.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Collegiate Athletes Engaging in Activism: Perceptions of Social Justice Causes and Support from Significant Social Agents

Martin

Kluch²,

Intosh³

et al. 2022

SSWJ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Recently, collegiate athletes have used their platform to promote positive social change. Some possibilities for the increase of activism is athletes’ perceptions of societal issues and support from key social agents. However, these perceptions have been largely unexplored. The current study aimed to address those gaps by investigating collegiate athletes’ perceptions and investigating if various demographic characteristics influence the likelihood of activism engagement. Participants (n = 4,473) completed self-report scales on social justice causes and perceived support. For this sample, athletes who identified as male, Black, and More than One Race engaged in activism at a higher rate than expected and a majority of participants viewed all social issues as social justice causes. In terms of support, athletes viewed higher levels of general support than instrumental support and approval for engaging in activism and rated parents, friends, and teammates as most supportive in all three support categories. Activists, compared to non-activists, were more likely to view social issues as social justice related and rated most social agents as more approving of their own activism. Findings indicate that perceptions of social issues and support from social agents, especially non-sport social agents, might be one reason for collegiate athletes’ participation in activism.

show abstract

The Performance and Reception of Race-Based Athletic Activism: Toward a Critical, Dramaturgical Theory of Sport

2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The emergence of an unprecedented wave of race-based athletic activism in the last decade presents the opportunity to formulate a more critical, cultural theory of the significance and socio-political function of sport in contemporary life. We begin by centering athlete agency and highlighting the distinctive performative, communicative, and symbolic opportunities that sport affords. However, athletic activism and social messaging are also structured—and their impacts shaped—by a range of contextual factors and institutional forces as well as sport’s own unique cultural status and ideological claims. We catalog these constraints to capture the larger cultural field of sport as a site of racial commentary and contestation. Situating this multifaceted field of protest and response in its larger social, cultural, and media contexts leads us to argue that sport presents a vehicle not only for the performance of protest (as existing theory might have it), but for the representation and dramatization of social contestation, struggle, and change more generally. The lessons and broader implications of this synthesis are discussed in the conclusion.

show abstract

Labor, Resources, and Interest Convergence in the Organized Resistance of Black Male Student-Athletes

Cited by 11 publications

References 0 publications

Interventions in Support of Anti-Racist Praxis in Athletics

Interventions in Support of Anti-Racist Praxis in Athletics

Collegiate Athletes Engaging in Activism: Perceptions of Social Justice Causes and Support from Significant Social Agents

The Performance and Reception of Race-Based Athletic Activism: Toward a Critical, Dramaturgical Theory of Sport

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About