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Title Recruiting, retaining, and engaging African American males at selective prestigious research universities : challenges and opportunities in academics and sports / edited by Louis A. Castenell and Tarek C. Grantham, Billy J. Hawkins
Published Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) : illustrations
Series Contemporary perspectives on access, equity, and achievement
Contemporary perspectives on access, equity, and achievement.
Contents The cultural collusion and collision in the evolution of highly selective universities : a historical overview of SPRUS at the American public's expense / Louis Castenell and Quincy Brewington -- African American males' academic preparation in K-12 settings for highly selective universities / Natoya Hill Haskins and Kelley Olds -- Desegregating the University System of Georgia (USG) and establishing the African American male initiative at the University of Georgia (UGA) : from USG shame to UGA GAAME / Tarek Grantham and Louis Castenell -- Project gentlemen on the move : model for creating a pipeline of African American male scholars / Deryl Bailey and Pam Paisley -- College athletics : access and opportunity for Black male athletes at selective research universities / Billy Hawkins and Akuoma C. Nwadike -- Changing the game : when African American professors engage African American student-athletes / Louis Harrison Jr, Alvin Logan, Devin Walker, and Leonard Moore -- African American student athletes and engagement in the college student experience / Joy Gayles and Eddie Comeaux -- Deconstructing "gods and monsters" : Black men, manhood, and college athletics / T. Elon Dancy II and Larry Birdine -- When the cheers fade : rethinking college transitions for Black male student-athletes and reframing success / Eugene T. Parker, Jarvis A. McCowin, Nicholas Katopol, Tevin Robbins, Malik S. Henfield and Anthony Ferguson -- Crouching talents, hidden gifts : the dualism of academic excellence and athletic development for gifted African American student-athletes at selective public research universities / Kristina Henry Collins and Andre Mark Perry -- "We are AAMRI" : redefining Black male excellence at the University of Texas at Austin / Darren D. Kelly, Martin P. Smith, and Cameron McCoy -- African American male initiatives : creating cultures of inclusion and climates of success at select public research universities / Zoe M. Johnson -- African American males in TRIO programs / Daniel Isaiah Thompson -- Using an antideficit achievement approach to examine a Black male college student's pursuit of a career in computer science / Darris R. Means and Raphael D. Coleman -- Shades of black : Black male law school enrollment by ethnic status / Daryl McAdoo, Chantel Jones, and Walter R. Allen
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 26, 2021)
Subject African American male college students.
African American college athletes.
African American men -- Education (Higher)
Academic achievement -- United States.v
Universities and colleges -- United States -- Sociological aspects
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Academic achievement
African American college athletes
African American male college students
African American men -- Education (Higher)
Universities and colleges -- Sociological aspects
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Castenell, Louis Anthony, 1947- editor.
Grantham, Tarek C., editor.
Hawkins, Billy Joe, editor.
LC no. 2018031217
ISBN 9781641132732
1641132736