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Journal articles on the topic "African American basketball coaches"

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Cunningham, George B., Jennifer E. Bruening, and Thomas Straub. "The Underrepresentation of African Americans in NCAA Division I-A Head Coaching Positions." Journal of Sport Management 20, no. 3 (July 2006): 387–413. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jsm.20.3.387.

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The purpose of this study was to examine factors that contribute to the under representation of African Americans in head coaching positions. In Study 1, qualitative data were collected from assistant football (n= 41) and men’s basketball (n= 16) coaches to examine why coaches sought head coaching positions, barriers to obtaining such positions, and reasons for leaving the coaching profession. In Study 2, assistant football (n= 259) and men’s basketball coaches (n= 114) completed a questionnaire developed from Study 1. Results indicate that although there were no differences in desire to become a head coach, African Americans, relative to Whites, perceived race and opportunity as limiting their ability to obtain a head coaching position and had greater occupational turnover intentions. Context moderated the latter results, as the effects were stronger for African American football coaches than they were for African American basketball coaches. Results have practical implications for the advancement of African American football coaches into head coaching roles.

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Harris, Othello. "Race, Sport, and Social Support." Sociology of Sport Journal 11, no. 1 (March 1994): 40–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.11.1.40.

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This study investigates whether African American student-athletes receive encouragement to participate in sport from the black community (e.g., parents) or from other socializing agents (e.g., teachers, coaches, and friends). A questionnaire was administered to 23 teams in two summer basketball leagues in Washington, D.C., during the summer of 1985. The findings indicate that African American student-athletes are more likely to perceive social support for playing basketball from coaches and friends and especially teachers, who provide encouragement for African Americans to participate in sport, but not from parents. Moreover, support for playing basketball is associated with professional sport aspirations for black, but not white, males.

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Zhai, Zongpeng, Yongbo Guo, Yuanchang Li, Shaoliang Zhang, and Hongyou Liu. "The Regional Differences in Game-Play Styles Considering Playing Position in the FIBA Female Continental Basketball Competitions." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 16 (August 12, 2020): 5827. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165827.

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The aim of this study was to identify regional differences based on playing position in terms of the technical performances among FIBA Female Continental Basketball Championships by controlling the influence of situational variables including the game outcome, game type, teams and opponent quality. The samples comprised of 9208 performance records from 471 games in the America, Africa, Asia and Europe Championships during 2013–2017 and were collected and analyzed by generalized mixed linear modeling. Our study highlighted that, although positional differences were clear among different continental championships, it is worth noting that African guards, forwards, and centers made more turnovers (TOV) compared with the corresponding positional players from other continental championships. In addition, European guards presented the lowest number of steals (STL) compared with African (ES = 0.28), Asian (ES = 0.21), and American guards (ES = 0.24). The results provide coaches to have a better understanding of game-play styles among FIBA Female Continental Basketball Competitions, which could optimize the development of female basketball and the selection and recruitment of female players at the international level.

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Bartges, Ellyn L. "“If It Doesn’t Play in Peoria…”." Journal of Sport History 38, no. 1 (April 1, 2011): 37–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.38.1.37.

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Abstract Charlotte Lewis died prematurely at age fifty-two. Lewis is not a household name in high school or intercollegiate basketball, yet she was a pioneer in many respects on the playground, in a high school gymnasium, a collegiate fieldhouse, the 1976 Olympics, and the Women’s Basketball League. Interviews with Lewis, her coaches, and her teammates provide the primary resources for this paper. As one of four African-American women on the inaugural women’s Olympic basketball team, as well as one of only seventy-six women to ever wear the Team USA basketball jersey, interest in Lewis should be more intense. Lewis deserves a louder, unified voice in how the history of women’s basketball in Illinois and the nation are remembered. Few have experienced the breadth of competition and the spectrum of success lived by Charlotte Lewis.

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Rahim, Raja Malikah. "“Our Life Out of the Dungeon”." Journal of Sport History 50, no. 3 (2023): 412–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/21558450.50.3.08.

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Abstract “Our Life Out of the Dungeon” examines the life and career of Robert L. Vaughan, the legendary and longtime head basketball coach at Elizabeth City State University, an Historically Black University, and explores the racial and cultural politics of Black college basketball in the twentieth-century United States. Using oral history and Vaughan's words, this article moves Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Black college basketball to the forefront of African American history and sport history, providing a window onto the world of college basketball that existed on the other side of the color line and in the decades after segregation. African Americans at HBCUs revolutionized basketball and transformed the sport into a cultural staple that shaped Black people, communities, and institutions. Through Vaughan's words and experiences, we can understand the struggles and successes and the political and cultural language of Black college basketball within the context of what I call the “politics of Black athletic emancipation”—a Black athletic agenda that stood in opposition to racism and white supremacy and reverberated the ethos of self-determination and collective striving of African Americans who demanded the right to be free and the right to play basketball.

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Kahn, Lawrence M. "Markets: Cartel Behavior and Amateurism in College Sports." Journal of Economic Perspectives 21, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 209–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.21.1.209.

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This paper studies intercollegiate athletics in the context of the theory of cartels. Some point to the explicit attempts by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to restrict output and payments for factors of production as evidence of cartel behavior. Others argue that such limits enhance product quality by preserving amateurism. I find that the NCAA's compensation limits on athletes lead to high levels of rents from the entertainment revenues produced by the athletes, a finding consistent with the cartel interpretation. The athletes producing these rents are disproportionately African-American, while the beneficiaries are primarily white. The rents are typically spent on facilities, nonrevenue sports, and, possibly, head coaches' salaries. Big-time football and men's basketball programs earn accounting profits, although the athletic departments in which they reside make accounting losses on average. However, there is some evidence, albeit not unanimous, that sports generate alumni contributions, state appropriations, and additional student applications. But, arms race considerations suggest that there may be some societal gains to the aggregate limitation of spending on college athletics.

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Williams, Vicki, and Jerome Quarterman. "How Leadership Development and Positive Mentorship of an African American Female Head Basketball Coach Have Had an Impact in the Lives of Her Players, Assistant Coaches, and Peers." Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education 2, no. 1 (April 2008): 69–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/ssa.2008.2.1.69.

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Seth, Pyar J. "The Essence of My Coaching Is to Serve: Monty Williams, Faith, and Relationality." Religions 13, no. 10 (October 9, 2022): 936. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13100936.

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Oftentimes, an athletic coach is tasked with establishing a player–coach relationship that is built on trust, commitment, accountability, hard work, and a belief in process. More recently, however, head coach of the Phoenix Suns, Monty Williams, has garnered considerable public attention for adding faith into that equation. Though faith is primarily considered a theological outlook and expression of spiritual value, it has extended beyond religiosity into his coaching praxis and pedagogy. In the paper, I look to add the voice of Monty Williams to the rich cohort of Black people assembled by Carey Latimore in Unshakable Faith: African American Stories of Redemption, Hope, and Community, a text principally concerned with illuminating the diversity in thought and expression of faith. Additionally, I draw on theories from Black Studies, post-colonial studies, and the sociology of sport to interrogate a particular discursive formulation advanced by Williams—“[…] the essence of my coaching is to serve”. I explore the nature of a faith-based coaching philosophy in the game of basketball and how the notion of coaching as service expresses a dynamic, complex set of religious histories, but also embodies a form of relationality centered on the following question: What does it mean to navigate sociopolitical life and death in community?

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Sudre, David, Helene Joncheray, and Antoine Lech. "“Let Go of Your Ball, This Is Not the NBA!”: The Influence of Hip-Hop Ball on Institutional Basketball Around Paris (France): Cultural Antagonisms and Difficult Cohabitation." Journal of Sport and Social Issues 43, no. 3 (March 11, 2019): 147–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193723519832464.

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The nature of the game of basketball, which is to score more hoops than the opposing team while respecting a set of rules, has often been questionned. Young players have been developing new ways to play and think basketball ever since the advent of the American hip-hop basketball (“hip-hop ball”) culture in France in the noughties. However, this way of playing basketball is viewed negatively by club coaches, who are the guardians of institutional basketball. Through participant observation and the interviewing of five coaches and 32 players, this article seeks to measure the consequences of what may be seen as a cultural divide. Our findings show how coaches depreciate hip-hop ball culture and sometimes stigmatize players to reinforce their own legitimacy within institutional basketball. Also, our data illustrate the players’ ability to shift from one basketball culture to the next in an attempt to gain recognition in institutional basketball.

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Branham, David. "Taking Advantage of an Untapped Pool: Assessing the Success of African American Head Coaches in the National Football League." Review of Black Political Economy 35, no. 4 (January 2008): 129–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12114-008-9031-1.

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Noting that only five African American coaches had been hired to lead National Football League (NFL) teams from 1989–2002, Madden (J of Sports Econ, 5(1):6–19 2004) found that teams coached by African Americans in the NFL outperformed their counterparts in the regular season but were significantly below average in the playoffs. This analysis, with data that includes nine African American coaches and extends through 2007, reconfirms Madden's finding that African American head coaches outperform their rivals in the regular season, but also finds that African American coaches no longer suffer from poor playoff performance. Using fixed effects pooled cross section time series models, this analysis confirms that teams with African American head coaches can expect more wins in the regular season than their peers, other things equal. However, there is some evidence that as the pool of African American coaching talent diminishes from additional hires their extraordinary performance may be slightly regressing. The playoff analysis shows that that when controlling for seeding, organizational strength and regular season wins, African American coaches perform at the same level as their counterparts.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African American basketball coaches"

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Croft, Chris. "Factors influencing Big 12 Conference college basketball male student-athletes' selection of a university." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.

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Huske, Jared Thomas 1987. "An Analysis of the Reasons Behind the Lack of Black Head Football Coaches at the NCAA Division I-A Level and Recommendations on Improvements to Solve this Problem." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9913.

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ix, 70 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
The lack of minority head coaches at the Division I-A level is not a new trend, nor one that is improving. In a sport where less than 10% of head coaches are minorities, a survey was randomly sent out to several head and assistant coaches at the collegiate level. The survey showed most coaches believe there are discrepancies in the hiring process that impair minorities, there tends to be unfair favoritism towards nonminority coaches after a termination and minority coaches are less likely to be recommended for a head coaching position. To encourage the diversity among head coaches, recommendations should include diversifying the hiring search committee, adding a rule similar to the National Football League's Rooney Rule and adding additional graduate assistant positions.
Committee in Charge: Dr. James R. Terborg, Business Administration; Dr. Philip Collis McCullum, Educational Leadership; Dr. Renee A. Irvin, Planning, Public Policy and Management

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Richman, Peter. "The Portrayal of Harlem Globetrotters' Owner Abe Saperstein: A Historical Investigation of Modern Perspectives." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/588.

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This Senior Thesis in History analyzes a number of newspaper articles from the 1950s and 1960s in order to investigate a noticeable historiographical narrative on former Harlem Globetrotters’ owner Abe Saperstein. Three historiographical accounts present the debated dichotomy of Abe’s character as a patronizing, bigoted owner toward his black players and as a champion of blacks’ rights. This research inquires as to the extent to which 1950s and 1960s newspaper portrayals of Abe either support or oppose historiographical interpretations. The resultant analysis argues that while a large portion of 1950s and 1960s articles bolster the substantially negative modern interpretations of Abe’s character, a significant amount of the primary sources present the owner in a much more favorable manner.

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Blackburn, Botswana Toney Thompson Carolyn. "Racial stacking in the National Football League reality or relic of the past? /." Diss., UMK access, 2007.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--School of Education and Dept. of Sociology. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2007.
"A dissertation in education and social science." Advisor: Carolyn Thompson. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed July 30, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-121). Online version of the print edition.

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Campbell, James H. "DJANGOS CHAINED: UNDERSTANDING THE NARRATIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE STUDENT ATHLETES PARTICIPATING IN DIVISION I BASKETBALL AT PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTIONS." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1417440509.

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Huske, Jared Thomas. "An analysis of the reasons behind the lack of black head football coaches at the NCAA Division I-A level and recommendations on improvements to solve this problem /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9913.

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Gutierrez, Robert Daniel. "Mainstream and marginalized the framing of black athletes in Glory road /." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.

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Zimmerman, Rebecca. "Winning off the Court." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1840.

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This case study examines a Philadelphia suburban school district, Lower Merion, and its failures to substantively integrate African-American students in the 21st century. Through a close analysis of the high school's basketball program, largely funded and popularized by Lower Merion alumnus Kobe Bryant, this case study exposes how extracurricular programs structure unequal expectations for African-American students in otherwise "excellent" public schools. By using oral history and local archival materials, Winning off the Court examines an all too common issue across modern American suburbia: public schools failing their minority populations while still purporting to be successful on a national scale.

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Hudson, Nicole Adanté. "The history and significance of the women's Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament." 2003. http://www.oregonpdf.org.

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Bernstein, Ariel Finch. "Race Matters in Coaching: An Examination of Coaches’ Willingness to Have Difficult Conversations with Leaders of Color." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-ks03-ve37.

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Do executive coaches have the skill sets necessary for effective partnership with an increasingly diverse workforce? Such inquiry remains unexamined, yet research from similar disciplines casts doubt. Drawing on these findings, a between-subject experiment sampled 129 coaches and examined their willingness to have “difficult conversations” with Black clients. The study investigated two questions in particular: (1) Do coaches provide less critical feedback to Black clients than they do White clients? and (2) Do coaches engage in fewer diversity-based conversations with Black clients than with White clients? The study found that as hypothesized, Black clients received more support, yet less challenge, less constructive feedback, and less time devoted to areas of development than did otherwise identical White clients. Coaches were also twice as likely to provide diversity-related feedback to White executives than they were to Black executives. Put simply, coaches assigned to Black clients chose to sidestep conversations about diversity and development. Substantial implications hold for practitioners, clients, and the greater coaching community. Findings suggested that coaches’ reluctance to provide challenging cross-racial feedback may stem from concern about appearing prejudiced. The result is that leaders of color who receive coaching may be robbed of developmental opportunities offered to White organizational leaders. Thus, the impact of racial dynamics should receive greater attention from U.S.-based coaching certification programs. In particular, institutes should consider mandating coaching supervision as well as incorporating diversity intelligence within their list of core competencies.

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Books on the topic "African American basketball coaches"

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Morris, Williams. Lo llevo en la sangre: Las memorias de Morris "Moe" Williams, Jr. Puebla, Pue, México: Familia Williams, 1988.

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Fast break. New York: Dafina Books, 2011.

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Fight for your life: From tragedy to triumph. Mustang, Okla: Tate Pub. & Enterprises, 2011.

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1945-, Steinberg Alan, ed. Red and me: My coach, my lifelong friend. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.

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Red and Me. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.

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Harris, E. Lynn. Basketball Jones. New York: Doubleday, 2009.

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Basketball Jones. Waterville, Me: Thorndike Press, 2009.

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Ashe, Arthur. A hard road to glory--basketball: The African-American athlete in basketball. New York, N.Y: Amistad, 1993.

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Playing in a new league: The women of the American Basketball League's first season. Indianapolis, IN: Masters Press, 1998.

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Kevin Durant: Basketball star. New York: Focus Readers, 2017.

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Book chapters on the topic "African American basketball coaches"

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Consenstein, Isaac. "Kobe Bryant Doesn’t Need a Son: Remembering an African American Icon." In Interdisciplinary Analyses of Professional Basketball, 165–87. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41656-9_9.

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Miller, James W. "At the Highest Level." In Integrated. University Press of Kentucky, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813169118.003.0011.

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Principals and coaches from African American high schools in Kentucky began peppering the formerly all-white Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) with questions regarding membership. Young acted quickly, and in 1956 Lincoln Institute became one of the first KHSAL members to be accepted into the KHSAA. The KHSAA state tournament had its first African American participants in March 1957, and the KHSAL ceased operations. A dozen African American schools closed after their local school boards submitted plans for integration, and their former students strengthened the teams at some of the newly integrated schools. The Lincoln basketball team faced a rebuilding year in 1955–1956 after John Cunningham and members of the 1955 state championship team graduated. Young hired Walter Gilliard as athletic director, and he succeeded Herbert Garner as head basketball coach the following year.

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Miller, James W. "In Front of the Parade." In Integrated. University Press of Kentucky, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813169118.003.0012.

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This chapter introduces Arnold Thurman, the basketball coach at all-white Bagdad High School in Shelby County. Thurman had played basketball at Berea College with African American players, and he welcomed black schools into the KHSAA. But Thurman faced resistance from the Bagdad fans and from at least one of his players. Thurman told his principal that if Bagdad were ever to achieve its goal of playing in the state tournament, it would have to play teams with African American players. Thurman became the first white coach to schedule a game with Lincoln Institute. Gilliard began constructing his team along the lines of Tennessee State, whose coach, John McLendon, favored a fast-breaking offense and a pressing defense. The integration of Kentucky's public schools progressed modestly in the 1957–1958 school year and avoided the unrest that erupted elsewhere, such as in Montgomery, Alabama, and Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Miller, James W. "Epilogue." In Integrated. University Press of Kentucky, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813169118.003.0020.

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The epilogue discusses the last years of Lincoln Institute's existence as a boarding high school. Gilliard resigned after the 1960 state tournament to launch his own journey as a college administrator and dean. In 1961 Whitney M. Young Jr. was named executive director of the National Urban League and became one of the leading voices for civil rights in America. John N. Cunningham received an honorable discharge from the US Air Force and was hired by IBM in Lexington, where he captained the company basketball team. In a game against University of Kentucky freshmen, the twenty-eight-year-old Cunningham outscored and outrebounded every other player on the floor, drawing the ire of Kentucky's coach Adolph Rupp. The thirty-eight African American schools still operating in 1960 gradually closed over the next several years, and in 1967 only Louisville Central remained, as an integrated high school. Whitney M. Young Sr. retired when Lincoln ceased operations in 1966. He died in 1975 at age seventy-seven.

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"Redirecting the Lives of Urban Black Males: An Assessment of Milwaukee’s Midnight Basketball League." In African American Community Practice Models, 105–22. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315792941-10.

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Kemper, Kurt Edward. "Basketball’s Civil War." In Before March Madness, 11–35. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043260.003.0002.

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This chapter examines the internecine struggles over the rules and organization of early basketball between the Amateur Athletic Union, the Young Men’s Christian Association, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and the National Association of Basketball Coaches. What resulted was a ruthless civil war between factions attempting to exclude or delegitimize opponents, ultimately drawing in as potential allies high school athletic associations, officiating organizations, and international sanctioning bodies. The chapter also examines how earlier organizational reform efforts resulting from college football shaped how the NCAA and the NABC approached college basketball, first demonstrating the power and influence of commercialized college athletics. The civil war emerged not just from organizational rivalries and their competing efforts to define amateurism but also from differences in specific rules and styles of play. These components of the game, however, were often little more than stalking horses for regional chauvinism against urban areas and religious bigotry against Catholics and Jews that was common in American life during the disorienting 1920s and 1930s. The civil war culminated with the selection process for the 1936 Olympic basketball roster, convincing the collegians that they could not coexist with the AAU and the YMCA.

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Miller, James W. "Organizing Athletics." In Integrated. University Press of Kentucky, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813169118.003.0005.

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This chapter explores how basketball became an organized sport at black schools and its historical importance. As benefactors such as Julius Rosenwald poured support into education for young black men and women, athletic programs began to grow and flourish. By the 1920s, more than fifty African American high schools in Kentucky were engaged in sports competition. In 1932 educators from the Kentucky Negro Educational Association organized the Kentucky High School Athletic League (KHSAL) to standardize rules and equalize competition. Whitney Young of Lincoln Institute and William Kean of Louisville Central High School were instrumental in organizing Kentucky's African American schools into a statewide association. The first state championship sponsored by the KHSAL was the annual boys basketball tournament.

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Pope, S. W. "Sport and American Identity." In Patriotic Games, 3–17. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195091335.003.0001.

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Abstract Between the 1876 centennial and the 1926 sesquicentennial, a national sporting culture was firmly established in the United States. During this era, which one sport scholar has characterized as the “cusp between America’s Century of Work and its Century of Play,” baseball became the acknowledged national pastime; basketball was invented; boxing exploded in popularity under new rules; football grew into a national, widely attended spectator sport; a recreation movement blossomed on the nation’s playgrounds; and sports became central to the educational curriculum. In addition, tennis, golf, and bicycling swept through the middle class, while workers started their own semiprofessional and amateur leagues in a variety of team sports. Organizational and business structures arose to regulate and rationalize these new activities, which were enjoyed by professionals, college students, military personnel, industrial workers, African-Americans, Indians, town teams, and schoolchildren; games were played on sandlots, and in cow pastures, playgrounds, public parks, and modern stadiums.

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Kaliss, Gregory J. "The ABA and the Origins of Hip-Hop America." In Beyond the Black Power Salute, 137–62. University of Illinois Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044915.003.0007.

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This chapter analyzes the larger meanings of the American Basketball Association (ABA). In existence from 1967 to 1976, the ABA offered innovative rules, on-court flair, and increased opportunities for African American players. Taking pride in its reputation as an outsiders’ league, the ABA encouraged a more wide-open and improvisational style of play that came primarily from black players on urban playgrounds. Wearing their hair in large Afros and exploding for powerful slam dunks on the court, black players in the ABA celebrated an African American aesthetic rooted in rhythmic sophistication, personal style, and improvisation. By modeling an early form of hip-hop culture, they also called attention to the plight of African Americans suffering from the legacies of white flight and urban decline.

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Henderson, Aneeka Ayanna. "Viewer, I Married Him." In Veil and Vow, 140–62. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651767.003.0006.

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This chapter uses film theory and visual culture studies to parse Malcolm D Lee's film The Best Man (1999) and Gina Prince-Bythewood's film Love and Basketball (2000) as well as the corresponding soundtracks, screenplays, and publicity. It illuminates how the films unsettle genre boundaries as well as encode progressive and pernicious messages about the formation of African American marriage and Black love for its Black middle-class characters.

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