This book examines the role of race in athletic programs in the United States. Intercollegiate athletics remains a contested terrain where race and racism are critical issues often absent in the public discourse. Recently, the economic motives of intercollegiate athletic programs and academic indiscretions have unveiled behaviors that stand to tarnish the images of institutions of higher education and reinforce racial stereotypes about the intellectual inabilities of Black males. Through the lens of Critical Race Theory (CRT), this volume analyzes sport as the platform that reflects and reinforces ideas about race within American culture, as well as the platform where resistance is forged against dominant racial ideologies.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Fraternal twins: CRT and SRT as analytic and activist tools.- Chapter 3. Interest convergence: A revolutionary theory for athletic reform.- Chapter 4. Scholar-Advocate: The role of scholar advocacy in Black student-athlete matriculation.- Chapter 5. Winning at all cost? An examination of the (UNC) Tar Heel academic fraud scandal.- Chapter 6. Race and racism: The Black experience in sports.- Chapter 7. The presence and absence of race: Ross v Creighton University.- Chapter 8. The double standard of promotion and the suppression of Black enterprise and entrepreneurship.- Chapter 9. Black male images in the NFL: The construction of black masculinity and maintenance of white supremacy.- Chapter 10. The State of Intercollegiate Athletics at Historically Black Colleges/Universities (HBCUs): Past, Present, & Persistence.- Chapter 11. Social responsibility/accountability in addressing constructs of CRT.- Chapter 12. Black male intercollegiate athletic administrators: Ascending the career ladder.- Chapter 13. Conclusion.