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Two Sides To The Story : Women's And Men's Views On The Difficulties Women Face In Accessing Directorships, Alison Sheridan, Gina Milgate
Two Sides To The Story : Women's And Men's Views On The Difficulties Women Face In Accessing Directorships, Alison Sheridan, Gina Milgate
Gina C Milgate
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Building The Nafta Railway: The Kansas City Southern Railway In The North American Economy, Paul Ciccantell
Building The Nafta Railway: The Kansas City Southern Railway In The North American Economy, Paul Ciccantell
Paul Ciccantell
This paper examines the strategies of the Kansas City Southern Railway to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Scholar Or Baller In American Higher Education? A Visual Elicitation And Qualitative Assessment Of The Studentathlete's Mindset, Keith Harrison
Scholar Or Baller In American Higher Education? A Visual Elicitation And Qualitative Assessment Of The Studentathlete's Mindset, Keith Harrison
Dr. C. Keith Harrison
Eminent scholar Harry Edwards (2000) has articulated three major realities of African American males in sports: a) The presumption of innate, race-linked black athletic superiority and intellectual deficiency; b) media propaganda portraying sports as a broadly accessible route to African American social and economic mobility; and c) a lack of comparably visible, high-prestige African American role models beyond the sports arena. Driven by labeling theory (Becker, 1963; Goffman, 1959), eight African American male student athletes were surveyed and interviewed. The last two points of Edwards' scholarship were investigated. "We have pretty good historical data and quantitative data about African American …
African American Racial Identity And Sport, Keith Harrison
African American Racial Identity And Sport, Keith Harrison
Dr. C. Keith Harrison
The purpose of this paper is to attempt to synthesize and apply African American racial identity theory and related research to the development of sport and physical activity patterns and preferences in African American youth. Historically the African American over-representation in particular sports phenomena has been examined genetically, anthropocentrically, physiologically, sociologically, and psychologically. The profusion of explanations is a testimony to the complexity of this phenomena. This manuscript provides yet another compelling perspective. Cross [(1995) The psychology of Nigrescence: revising the Cross Model, in: J.G. PONTEROTTO et al. (Eds) Handbook of Multicultural Counseling (Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage)] outlines the metamorphic …
Who Can A Baller Trust? Analyzing Public University Response To Alleged Student-Athlete Misconduct In A Commercial And Confusing Environment, Keith Harrison
Who Can A Baller Trust? Analyzing Public University Response To Alleged Student-Athlete Misconduct In A Commercial And Confusing Environment, Keith Harrison
Dr. C. Keith Harrison
No abstract provided.
What Do Family Mediators Do? A Look At Practices And Models, Sherrill W. Hayes
What Do Family Mediators Do? A Look At Practices And Models, Sherrill W. Hayes
Sherrill W. Hayes
No abstract provided.