scholarly journals Operation Varsity Blues: Disguising the legal capital exchanges and white property interests in athletic admissions

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-32
Author(s):  
Kirsten Hextrum
Keyword(s):  
College Athletes ◽  
Exchange Theory ◽  
Legal Capital ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
Whiteness As Property ◽  
University Officials ◽  
White Elite

“Operation Varsity Blues” (OVB) indicted coaches and administrators from eight universities for accepting bribes in exchange for admitting fraudulent athletes. As part of the conspiracy parents paid university officials to admit students with little-to-no sport experience as college athletes. Court filings in the case contrasted OVB to the legal process of athletic recruitment and admission in which universities set different criteria to admit those with athletic talent (Smith, 2019a). This conceptual article cautions against such a contrast. Using Harris’ (1993) whiteness as property, Bourdieu’s (2011) capital exchange theory, and findings from my research into athletic recruitment and admission, I examine how OVB closely resembles current athletic admissions practices that provide a legal pathway to college that privileges white, elite communities.

Infrahumanizing Praise

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 187-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark H. White ◽  
Ludwin E. Molina
Keyword(s):  
College Athletes ◽  
Black Athletes ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The Mind

Abstract. Five studies demonstrate that athletic praise can ironically lead to infrahumanization. College athletes were seen as less agentic than college debaters (Studies 1 and 2). College athletes praised for their bodies were also seen as less agentic than college athletes praised for their minds (Study 3), and this effect was driven by bodily admiration (Study 4). These effects occurred equally for White and Black athletes (Study 1) and did not depend on dualistic beliefs about the mind and body (Study 2), failing to provide support for assumptions in the literature. Participants perceived mind and body descriptions of both athletes and debaters as equally high in praise (Study 5), demonstrating that infrahumanization may be induced even if descriptions of targets are positively valenced. Additionally, decreased perceptions of agency led to decreased support for college athletes’ rights (Study 3).

Eating behaviors and nutrition knowledge in female college athletes

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina C. Tortolani ◽  
Debra L. Franko ◽  
Ashley McCray ◽  
Emma Zoloth
Keyword(s):  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
College Athletes ◽  
Nutrition Knowledge ◽  
Female College ◽  
Female College Athletes

Personality of College Athletes An Application of Tokyo University Egogram

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masako Ishihara ◽  
Masanobu Araki ◽  
Hironobu Tsuchiya
Keyword(s):  
College Athletes

Eating Behavior and Body Image in College Athletes and Nonathletes

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zella E. Moore ◽  
Chad Morrow ◽  
Andrew T. Wolanin ◽  
Christine Abrams ◽  
Kristen Capozzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Eating Behavior ◽  
College Athletes

Exploring sandbagging behaviors, effort, and perceived utility of the ImPACT Baseline Assessment in college athletes.

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Schatz ◽  
R. J. Elbin ◽  
Melissa N. Anderson ◽  
Jennifer Savage ◽  
Tracey Covassin
Keyword(s):  
College Athletes ◽  
Baseline Assessment ◽  
Perceived Utility ◽  
The Impact

‘Colonial livery’ and the chemise à la reine, 1779–1784

Costume ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Ashelford
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
French West Indies ◽  
Cotton Industry ◽  
Saint Domingue ◽  
Marie Antoinette ◽  
White Elite

When Jane Austen wrote in January 1801 that ‘Mrs Powlett was at once expensively and nakedly dressed’, the fashion for muslin dresses had existed for some eighteen years. This article examines the crucial period between 1779 and 1784 when the muslin garment, which became known as the chemise à la reine, was developed and refined. Originating in the French West Indies, the gaulle was the ‘colonial livery’ worn by the wives of the white elite, the ‘grands blancs’, and first appeared as a costume in a ballet performed in Paris in 1779. The version worn by Queen Marie Antoinette in Vigée Le Brun's controversial portrait of 1783 provoked, according to the Baron de Frénilly, ‘a revolution in dress’ which eventually destabilized society. The article focuses on the role played by Saint-Domingue, France's most valuable overseas possession, in the transference of the gaulle from colonial to metropolitan fashion, and how the colony became one of the major providers of unprocessed cotton to the French cotton industry.

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