Generations: Academic and Athletic Integration of a Southern PWI Basketball Program.
OBJECTIVE
The purposes of this study were to: (a) analyze the insights and experiences of the 1st African American student-athlete (in basketball) at a prominent predominantly White institution in the Deep South as well as the later insights and experiences of his sons at the same university; and (b) to present a counterstory to the dominant historical rendering of the Civil Rights Movement, the integration of athletics, and the experiences and outcomes of contemporary African American athletes.


METHODS
Using qualitative critical race methodology, investigators conducted and analyzed interviews with the 1st African American to play basketball at a prominent university located in the Deep South and his 2 sons who attended the same university a generation later.


RESULTS
Using the lens of critical race theory, the themes conceived from the analysis were the counterstory of agency, counterstorytelling stereotypes, and the salience of everyday racism.


CONCLUSIONS
Racism is still existent within society, even within college athletics. The holistic success of African American athletes in college is dependent upon their ability to navigate overt and covert racial climates.
a The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Langston
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Clark
Louis
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Harrison
Albert Y
AY
Bimper
D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D001490:Basketball / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D036301:Qualitative Research; D063505:Racism; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities
African Americans; National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA); critical race methodology; critical race theory