Race, sport, and future orientation

Harris, Othello

doi:10.1007/s12111-996-1007-2

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“…In addition, the NCAA (2003) findings account for student athletes admitted into academic programs such as education and engineering that require additional coursework and pre-professional training, thus extending their enrolment beyond the traditional four years. 4 The NCAA's (2003) findings are intriguing, for they counter earlier research that indicated a positive correlation between athletic participation and academic achievement in high school regardless of race (see Braddock, 1979Braddock, , 1981Braddock, , 1982Trent, 1982;Harris, 1991Harris, , 1998. 5 Moreover, the NCAA's use of a six-year scale to measure the academic outcomes of student-athletes is troubling considering five years is the maximum a student athlete can receive financial assistance from an athletic scholarship.…”

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Towards an interest‐convergence in the education of African‐American football student athletes in major college sports

Donnor

2005

Race Ethnicity and Education

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The purpose of this article is to advance Derrick Bell's (1992b) interest-convergence principle as an analytical lens for understanding the complex role of race in the educational experiences of AfricanAmerican football student athletes. Currently, there is a scarcity of educational research that employs a critical theoretical perspective on race to address the education of African-American students in general, and student athletes in particular. This article includes American law cases that attend to the educational experiences of student athletes participating in high profile intercollegiate football programs. The inclusion of the legal literature is meant to adhere to the intellectual and methodological origins of critical race theory and to demonstrate how educational differences are institutionalized through coercion and ideology. The article concludes with a discussion of the interest-convergence principle as a means of investigating and establishing alternative strategies on behalf of the student athlete in order to improve his educational experience and academic outcomes.

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Towards an interest‐convergence in the education of African‐American football student athletes in major college sports

Donnor

2005

Race Ethnicity and Education

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“…fame and fortune) that some young Black male professional athletes have achieved as a result of their athletic prowess has turned them into role models for young Black males, and this probably has further perpetuated many Black males’ ambitions to pursue careers as professional athletes. Several scholars have focused on the athletic aspirations of Black males (Harris, 1998; Harrison et al, 1999, 2002; Lee, 1983; Sailes, 1998b), and essentially, this research has shown that Black males, in comparison to their White counterparts, are more likely to play sports with the expectation that it would lead to a college athletic scholarship and/or professional sport career.…”

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The career trajectory of a Black male high school basketball player: A social reproduction perspective

Singer

May

2010

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Interscholastic sport in the United States is a social institution within which the social relationships and attitudes needed to sustain the existing dominant economic and class relations of the larger society could be perpetuated or reproduced. This single case study allowed us to explore the question of social reproduction by examining the nuances of how a young Black male high school basketball player helped to reproduce his social class position in society by aspiring to a career as a professional athlete. Our findings reveal that not only does this young man exclude himself from alternative opportunities for social mobility, but also in the context of pursuing hoop dreams, he lacked the cultural and social capital for navigating his way to his desired goal. Practical and research implications are discussed.

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“…According to Majors (1998), sports could ultimately lock Black males into their low-status positions in society. Others (e.g., Harris, 1998a, 1998b) dismiss the idea that sports are an easy route to social mobility for Black. For example, posit that sports participation is considered to have positive effects for White males only (Harris & Hunt, 1982).…”

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The Sports Participation Effect on Educational Attainment of Black Males

Harris

2012

Education and Urban Society

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The purpose of this study is to explore the direct, indirect, and total effects of high school sports participation on educational attainment for Black males using the Educational Longitudinal Study (2002/2006), a large, nationally representative, database. A path analysis procedure for determining underlying causal relationships between variables is presented. Although the implications of the results of this study are relevant for all who work with this population, school counselors are specifically highlighted.

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Race, sport, and future orientation

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Towards an interest‐convergence in the education of African‐American football student athletes in major college sports

Towards an interest‐convergence in the education of African‐American football student athletes in major college sports

The career trajectory of a Black male high school basketball player: A social reproduction perspective

The Sports Participation Effect on Educational Attainment of Black Males

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