PATHFINDER: RACE AND SPORTS
Scope|Subject
Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating
Books
SCOPE: In general, sports has
been successful in creating racial equality where
individuals are judged primarily on performance and
skill. Yet, there still remains incidences where racial
stereotyping and biased thinking exist. Sports
psychologists assess that there is racial inequality in
playing positions in some team sports, racial
insensitivity in the use of team mascots, and low
minority representation in head coaching and managerial
positions. ( Yiannakis, Contemporary Issues in Sociology
of Sport) The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as
a guideline for student research. It is not intended as
a comprehensive listing of all the materials available
on this topic, but as a selective sampling of the many
types of sources available.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with race and sports are listed in the
Baddour Library’s online catalog under the following
subject headings:
Blacks—Race identity
Athletes, Black
Sports—Social Aspects—United States
African American basketball players—Social conditions
Discrimination in sports—United States
African Americans—Sports
Racism in sports
There are sources located in the Reference Section of
the Baddour Library that give a general overview or
summary of the topic you are researching. The following
is a list of some of the sources available in the
library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REF HM 585.W67 2001 World of Sociology
Some representative books from the circulating
collection are:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Billet, Bret L.
America’s National Pastime: A Study of Race and Merit in
Professional Baseball. Westport,Conn: Praeger, 1995.
Brooks, Dana D.
Racism in College Athletics: the African-American
Athlete’s Experience. Morgantown, WV: Fitness
Information Technology, 1993.
Entine, Jon.
Taboo Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are
Afraid to Talk About It. New York: Public Affairs,
2000.
Hoberman, John M.
Darwin’s Athletes: How Sport has Damaged Black America
and
Preserved the Myth of Race. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Co; 1997.
King, C. Richard.
Beyond the Cheers: Race as Spectacle in College Sport.
Albany:
State University of New York Press, 2001.
Platt, Larry.
New Jack Jocks: Rebels, Race, and the American Athlete.
Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 2002.
Shields, David.
Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season. New
York:
Three Rivers Press, 1999.
Shropshire, Kenneth L.
In Black and White: Race and Sports in America. New
York:
New York University Press, 1996.
Yiannakis, Andrew & Merrill J. Melnick.
Contemporary Issues in Sociology of Sport.
Champaign, Ill: Human Kinetics, 2001.
Some of the representative journals that the library
subscribes to that focus on this topic are:
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE
PUBLICATIONS
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Updated
02/08/2007
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