Word: colorism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...committee went on to report that at the time, the highest number of minority students to play football in any given year was five, in 2002, while the men’s basketball team claimed zero students of color in that same year. For women’s basketball, the high mark at the time was one student, from...
...were successful in persuading students of color in general,” Larimore says. “The question we put forward was, ‘Why would we feel that the factors would be that much different for student athletes...
...have a tremendous offering of sports that are not historically favorable to people of color, perhaps because of access,” Roby says. “You’re already working off a pool that is really limited. How many kids of color are drawn to play field hockey, fencing, swimming and diving, lacrosse, tennis, and golf...
...sport in which we expect to find tangible numbers of athletes of color, you want to make sure that you reach those athletes and do the best possible job you can in attracting them and persuading them,” Orleans says. “But if you’re looking at success in recruiting, your definition of success will be different depending on the particular sport that you’re talking about...
Harvard football head coach Tim Murphy arrived in Cambridge from the University of Cincinnati in 1994, taking over a program built by longtime coach Joe Restic. By Murphy’s own count, the team he inherited had only one or two students of color...