African-American Athlete Resource Directory (Book)

This important directory focuses predominantly on concerns about race relations and social injustices towards African Americans in college athletics. The directory provides bibliographies of African Americans in sports, black newspapers and magazines, museums, Halls of Fame, and audio visual resources. This book is appropriate for colleges and universities, libraries, public schools, parents, and student use. Author/Editor: Dana Brooks, Ronald Althouse Copyright: 1996 Binding: Paperback Pages: 218 pp. (approx.) Dana D. Brooks is a Professor and Dean of the School of Physical Education at West Virginia University. He received a B.S. degree from Towson State University (1973), and M.S. (1976) and Ed.D. (1979) degrees from West Virginia University. Dr. Brooks' research, publications and professional presentations have focused on the African American student-athlete experience, coaching career mobility patterns, and race relations within intercollegiate athletics. Dr. Brooks served as Chairperson of the following West Virginian University committees: Athletic Council, Social Justice and Affirmative Action. Dr. Brooks is a member of the North American Society for Sport Sociology and the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues. For recreation, he enjoys tennis, racquetball, photography, and travel. Ronald Althouse is a professor of sociology, Chairperson of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Director of the Survey Research Center at West Virginia University. He received the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Althouse's research interests and publications have focused on workers' health, health care delivery, and health systems. As Director of West Virginia University's Survey Research Center, Dr. Althouse has consulted on issues as diverse as the well-being of West Virginia's children or citizen's expression of environmental risk. He has contributed to the literature on athletic participation, and is committed to efforts focused on social justice in sports. He co-edited Racism in College Athletics: The African-American Experience (1993; Fitness Information Technology, Inc.) with Dana Brooks. In his leisure time he enjoys bicycling, is an avid science fiction reader, and enjoys jazz.