Visualizing Black Student-Athletes, Performance, and Belonging at Predominantly White Institutions

"How the NCAAs Empire Robs Predominantly Black Athletes of Billions in Generational Wealth" (Ramogi Huma, 2020)

"The systemic racism that exists in the college sport industry has been recognized for decades by the players themselves, coaches, journalists, and scholars. Numerous scholars have concluded that Black college athletes as a group often experience educational neglect due to a range of issues including the lack of adequate academic learning support, practices associated with maintaining athlete eligibility rather than academic advancement, academic clustering, and limitations placed on course selections and academic majors (Beamon, 2008, 2012; Benson, 2000; Garcia & Maxwell, 2019; Smith & Willingham, 2015). Black athletes competing on teams at majority White institutions face being negatively stereotyped as superhuman because of their athletic talent. They are expected to endure physical pain and harms without complaint while being viewed as intellectually inferior (Cooper, 2018). Antiblack racism on college campuses and the racial climate in which college football and basketball players operate has had a detrimental effect on their success academically (Comeaux and Grummert, forthcoming)."

Position	Percentage White
Chancellors and presidents	80%
Directors of athletics	79%
Associate directors of athletics	84%
Faculty athletics representatives	82%
Senior woman administrators in athletic departments	75%

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Texas A&M University, College Station, TX recruited the highest numbers of Black athletes in the nation.

Visualizing Black Student-Athletes, Performance, and Belonging at Predominantly White Institutions

Being a Black Student at a Predominately White institution by the Grio

"How the NCAAs Empire Robs Predominantly Black Athletes of Billions in Generational Wealth" (Ramogi Huma, 2020)

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