Class Year
2021
Document Type
Student Research Paper
Date of Creation
Spring 2018
Department 1
Africana Studies
Abstract
In this paper, I discuss the challenges and inequalities that Black male athletes face while playing college sports, particularly basketball and football at PWIs. I explore how this focus on sports pushes these individuals to focus on athletics rather than academics, as they are there on scholarships and are focused primarily on representing their schools and becoming professional athletes. I discuss multiple factors that play into these student-athletes' idea that athletics are more important than academics. Using multiple studies, I give information and statistics on the outcomes of these athletes. I also provide limitations of the studies I use so that others can expand the information given and contribute to this topic in the future.
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Recommended Citation
Laemle, Jessica L., "Books or Baskets: Compromising the Education and Future of Black Student-Athletes" (2018). Student Publications. 612.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/612
Comments
Written as a research paper for Africana Studies 250: Black Bodies in American Sport.