As highly visible organizations, professional sports teams provide a context to examine the
reproduction of racial hierarchies over time. This study analyzes racial segregation …

This study experimentally tested whether White participants (N= 274) applied stereotypes to
Black and White professional quarterbacks. Using common stereotypical descriptors …

This study analyzed how depictions of White and Black recruits by ESPN network
employees differs depending on athletic successes, failures, personality, and physicality. A …

Black coaches comprise nearly half of all Southeastern Conference (SEC) assistant football
coaches. However, during the 2021 college football season all 14 SEC head coaches were …

The authors propose that racial disparity in organizational leadership representation will
persist until valuative bias favoring white men ceases to influence advancement from the …

Racial discrimination in the coaching labor market has garnered substantial attention among
researchers; however, scholars have struggled to empirically answer the question of why …

Abstract During the 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) college football
season, eight of the 65 Power-5 head coaches were Black. The racial composition of …

The purpose of this study considers whether racial stacking and stereotypes inherent in
media coverage of professional and college sports translate into girls' high school basketball …

Racist stacking is a phenomenon in team sports in which Black players are
underrepresented in tactical and leading positions, while they are overrepresented in …

This research applied a critical quantitative approach to the 247sports. com recruiting
website to consider whether the “Black quarterback” label systematically rooted in sport …