What are some of the factors that African American students and student athletes lag behind their white counterparts on all measurable indexes that record academic performance?

African American Studies

In a minimum of two pages written in essay format using paragraphs MLA style answer the following questions:

1.) First Impressions-What parts of the reading(s) did you find surprising, puzzling, useful, new, already knew, and interesting?

2.) Essential Message

3.) Explain the Dionysian nature of young African American males and their relationship to the athletic structure of the United States society, especially the intercollegiate athletic empire.

4.) What are some of the factors that African American students and student athletes lag behind their white counterparts on all measurable indexes that record academic performance?

5.) What can be done to change the long-standing practices that are among the problems that plague African American males who participate at all levels of collegiate sports?

6.) Significance for African American culture through sports.

7.) Points of Agreement/Dissension

8.) Summary/Closing