ABSTRACT
The use of the language of slavery in any variation always strikes an exposed nerve in the United States, the result of guilt, denial, and des-rooted anger and frustration over the inescapable reality that our country’s foundations are buried in the fields of slave plantations. The academic literature addressing the durable linkages between slavery, capitalism, and economic development in the United States has undergone a seismic transformation. Sport not only occupies a unique place in higher education but also an equally complex space in the sociocultural lives of Black people in the United States. The foregoing takes on a racialized component when one considers that African American males “receive almost twice as many scholarship offers as non-African American males” in major college sports.
