Living the dream or awakening from the nightmare: Race and athletic identity

Race Ethnicity and Education

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 91-103

  Louis Jr , Harrison ^a   Sailes, Gary ^b   Rotich, Willy K ^c   Bimper Jr , Albert Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Athletic identity; Race

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; MALE; RACE; SPORT; STUDENT;

EID: 78751517836     PISSN: 13613324     EISSN: 1470109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2011.531982     Document Type: Article

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