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Author: Joshua H. Nadel
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Published: 2023-09-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780813080420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Bringing together an unprecedented number of extensive personal stories, this book shares the triumphs and heartbreaking moments experienced by some of the first Cubans to come to the United States after Fidel Castro took power in 1959."--
Author: William G. Bowen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011-06-27
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1400840708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Reclaiming the Game, William Bowen and Sarah Levin disentangle the admissions and academic experiences of recruited athletes, walk-on athletes, and other students. In a field overwhelmed by reliance on anecdotes, the factual findings are striking--and sobering. Anyone seriously concerned about higher education will find it hard to wish away the evidence that athletic recruitment is problematic even at those schools that do not offer athletic scholarships. Thanks to an expansion of the College and Beyond database that resulted in the highly influential studies The Shape of the River and The Game of Life, the authors are able to analyze in great detail the backgrounds, academic qualifications, and college outcomes of athletes and their classmates at thirty-three academically selective colleges and universities that do not offer athletic scholarships. They show that recruited athletes at these schools are as much as four times more likely to gain admission than are other applicants with similar academic credentials. The data also demonstrate that the typical recruit is substantially more likely to end up in the bottom third of the college class than is either the typical walk-on or the student who does not play college sports. Even more troubling is the dramatic evidence that recruited athletes "underperform:" they do even less well academically than predicted by their test scores and high school grades. Over the last four decades, the athletic-academic divide on elite campuses has widened substantially. This book examines the forces that have been driving this process and presents concrete proposals for reform. At its core, Reclaiming the Game is an argument for re-establishing athletics as a means of fulfilling--instead of undermining--the educational missions of our colleges and universities.
Author: Walter Byers
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1997-08-27
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780472084425
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Author: B. Hawkins
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-02-15
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 023010553X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New Plantation examines the controversial relationship between predominantly White NCAA Division I Institutions (PWI s) and black athletes, utilizing an internal colonial model. It provides a much-needed in-depth analysis to fully comprehend the magnitude of the forces at work that impact black athletes experiences at PWI s. Hawkins provides a conceptual framework for understanding the structural arrangements of PWI s and how they present challenges to Black athletes academic success; yet, challenges some have overcome and gone on to successful careers, while many have succumbed to these prevailing structural arrangements and have not benefited accordingly. The work is a call for academic reform, collective accountability from the communities that bear the burden of nurturing this athletic talent and the institutions that benefit from it, and collective consciousness to the Black male athletes that make of the largest percentage of athletes who generate the most revenue for the NCAA and its member institutions. Its hope is to promote a balanced exchange in the athletic services rendered and the educational services received.
Author: John Hoberman
Publisher: HMH
Published: 1997-11-03
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 0547348541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA “provocative, disturbing, important” look at how society’s obsession with athletic achievement undermines African Americans (The New York Times). Very few pastimes in America cross racial, regional, cultural, and economic boundaries the way sports do. From the near-religious respect for Sunday Night Football to obsessions with stars like Tiger Woods, Serena Williams, and Michael Jordan, sports are as much a part of our national DNA as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But hidden within this reverence—shared by the media, corporate America, even the athletes themselves—is a dark narrative of division, social pathology, and racism. In Darwin’s Athletes, John Hoberman takes a controversial look at the profound and disturbing effect that the worship of sports, and specifically of black players, has on national race relations. From exposing the perpetuation of stereotypes of African American violence and criminality to examining the effect that athletic dominance has on perceptions of intelligence to delving into misconceptions of racial biology, Hoberman tackles difficult questions about the sometimes subtle ways that bigotry can be reinforced, and the nature of discrimination. An important discussion on sports, cultural attitudes, and dangerous prejudices, Darwin’s Athletes is a “provocative book” that serves as required reading in the ongoing debate of America’s racial divide (Publishers Weekly).
Author: Anthony L. Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 1317979435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Education of Black Males in a ‘Post-Racial’ World examines the varied structural and discursive contexts of race, masculinities and class that shape the educational and social lives of Black males. The contributing authors take direct aim at the current discourses that construct Black males as disengaged in schooling because of an autonomous Black male culture, and explore how media, social sciences, school curriculum, popular culture and sport can define and constrain the lives of Black males. The chapters also provide alternative methodologies, theories and analyses for making sense of and addressing the complex needs of Black males in schools and in society. By expanding our understanding of how unequal access to productive opportunities and quality resources converge to systemically create disparate experiences and outcomes for African-American males, this volume powerfully illustrates that race still matters in 'post-racial' America. This book was originally published as a special issue of Race Ethnicity and Education.
Author: George Harvey Sage
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Published: 1998-01
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780880116602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPower and Ideology in American Sport addresses a wide range of topics, including: how sport is embedded in the social, political, and economic structures of American society; how the sporting experience is shaped by powerful individuals as well as ordinary people; and as such how sport both unifies and segregates individuals, social classes, racial and ethnic groups, and competing political loyalties.
Author: JAVIER CLEMENTE ENGONGA AVOMO
Publisher: DelRei
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Total Pages: 79
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo African leader who wants good for his people has ever been welcomed by Western political powers. From Tomás Sankara to the imprisonment of Mandela by the Germans who control South Africa, going through all the prefabricated wars in Africa to cause social instability while the resources of the peoples are plundered; very few African leaders with true nationalism and pan-Africanism have led the destinies of their peoples. The socio-political instability of Africa and its peoples is the ultimate goal of racist imperialisms in the world. That is why the story of Obiang Nguema mbasogo, President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea is an important part of the History of Africa, the True History of Africa. No African leader or African leader who has wanted to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of his country has been considered a friend to the imperialists and the financial powers that control global macro politics. For this reason, and because nobody is perfect, to write about Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is to write with knowledge of the facts, since I have always defended a single cause in relation to my country, and it is the cause of A Better Guinea. As an African, respect for the elderly regardless of personal particularities makes the responsibility of writing in the year 2021 about an African Head of State in power since 1979, five years before my birth, even more serious. As an Equatorial Guinean, I know from experience the socio-political reality of the country from all fronts, and I have never been impartial, because I am an objective and above all rational person. The disorder and the senseless, and that alleged monopoly of knowledge of those who claim to be politicians in Equatorial Guinea because that is their profession, is not part of my rhetoric. I respect everyone's opinion and as an Equatoguinean and African, I do not expect my opinion to be respected, much less by Equatoguineans and Africans, because in short, in Africa individual opinions are not respected or rather, they are not tolerated. For this reason, I am going to ask intolerance for a little patience while reading these lines, since freedom of expression is not a two-edged sword but simply and clearly a straight line. There is no country without poverty, but poverty is a shame, because it is created easily and through negligence, and it is also easily avoided and with the technical knowledge that experience provides. When a country is as rich as Equatorial Guinea, with more maritime territory than continental and with huge deposits of oil and gas; For a small country of around two million inhabitants that means doom for the People when its leaders are irresponsible, and a blessing for the Nation when its leaders are responsible. When people talk about Equatorial Guinea in the world, unfortunately they only talk about oil and human rights, those rights that are denied to all Africans and Afro-descendants in the world when their resources are assaulted and kidnapped by foreign powers. Those rights that are also denied to many Equatorial Guineans, and the evidence is in their experiences, experiences and their truth, which is also a struggle. Coming of age of life is not the same as coming of age in politics. The political age of majority is acquired after many experiences. The political age of majority is acquired after having been assigned to the front line together with the supposed political leaders and seeing that they are not leaders of anything or represent anyone. Political age of majority is acquired by observing and feeling that the People of Equatorial Guinea are very tired of their own discontent. The political age of majority is acquired after seeing that corruption is the flag that has replaced the flag of any party, and that is a serious problem for our young Nation. Equatorial Guinea is a young country that has reached Political Majority. The political age of majority is acquired when one speaks in the first person and with knowledge of the facts, because he does not have political, economic, blood or any other commitments with anyone other than the People. Malabo, 23.06.2021 Javier Clemente Engonga,
Author: Javier Clemente Engonga Avomo
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Published: 2021-07
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter centuries of colonial invasion and oppression, which has traumatized the African continent and which many Europeans still try to maintain and even idealize, neither the history nor the future of Africa will ever be the same without the impact of cooperation with the People's Republic of China, a country that is thousands of years old. One of the great barriers to globalization is cultural prejudice, ignorance and misinterpretation. Relations between Africa and its nations and China should not only be looked at from the outside or from an imperialist point of view, but also from the point of view of common sense, globalization and brotherhood between nations. Africa and China are making history, and although the future is uncertain, success is certain.
