ABSTRACT

Private high schools are often viewed as bastions of scholastic and social opportunities, but the cost of tuition has rendered these sites predominantly white and more segregated than public schools. However, with the ability to recruit, Black boys have become prime targets of predominantly white private Catholic high schools seeking promising student-athletes. As a result, the population of Black boys at these schools are composed almost entirely of students recruited to play a sport. Drawing from qualitative interview data, the purpose of this paper is to illustrate the racialized experiences of six Black boys who attended a predominantly white Catholic high school in which the entire Black population was composed of student-athletes. Findings indicate that participants initially saw the private Catholic school as an escape from their respective public schools but realized that mere attendance did not result in total inclusion. All six participants encountered forms of antiblackness via frequent structural and cultural assaults that made their daily attendance at the school difficult.

摘要

私立高中通常被视为学术和社交机会的堡垒，但学费成本使这些地点以白人为主，并且比公立学校更加隔离。然而，由于有招募能力，黑人男孩已成为主要是白人私立天主教高中寻找有前途的学生运动员的主要目标。结果，这些学校的黑人男孩几乎完全由被招募参加运动的学生组成。从定性访谈数据中提取，本文的目的是说明六名黑人男孩的种族化经历，他们就读于一所以白人为主的天主教高中，其中整个黑人人口都由学生运动员组成。调查结果表明，参与者最初将私立天主教学校视为他们各自公立学校的逃避，但意识到仅仅出勤并不能导致完全融入。所有六名参与者都通过频繁的结构和文化攻击遇到了反黑人的形式，这使得他们在学校的日常出勤变得困难。