Corliss Outley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5053640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Corliss Outley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Corliss |
| FAMILY NAME | Outley |
| SIGNATURE | OUTLEY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clemson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7698-9749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Reacting or Responding: The Impact of AI on the Delivery of Leisure-Related Courses
Institutions of higher education are wrestling with developing comprehensive Artificial Intelligence (AI) policies while instructors are taking hard lines in support or opposition to the use of generative AI platforms by students. While generative AI might be fairly new, this reactive approach to dealing with emerging technology in the classroom (i.e. PowerPoint, laptops, mobile devices) is not. With each new development in technology, institutio…
When And Where I Enter: Reclaiming Anna Julia Cooper as a Classical Sociologist in the Study of Leisure
This paper addresses the systematic exclusion of Anna Julia Cooper’s foundational Black feminist thought from the sociological and leisure studies canon. Despite her 1892 work, A Voice from the South, pioneering intersectional analysis and standpoint theory decades before these concepts entered mainstream academia, Cooper remains marginalized. The discipline’s canon was deliberately constructed around white, male, Eurocentric thinkers, creating a…
Afropessimism in Leisure Studies
This paper advances Afropessimism as a necessary philosophical and ontological framework for leisure and recreation studies, arguing that anti-Blackness is not a remediable flaw but a foundational condition of the social order that positions Blackness outside the category of the Human. Grounded in social death theory, it theorizes Blackness through natal alienation, gratuitous violence, and social dishonor, and contends that leisure spaces, often…
Nuestras Historias: Latino youth stories from upstate South Carolina
Developing an eCommunity to enhance campers’ sense of connectedness in the digital landscape
Personal and Contextual Variables Predicting College Aspirations Among Latinx High School Students
This study used path analysis to examine personal and contextual variables that hinder or foster college aspirations in Latinx high school students in the framework of social cognitive career theory (Lent et al., 1994). A total of 247 Latinx high school students from an urban high school in Southern California completed a survey that measured self-efficacy, outcome expectations, supports, and barriers to college aspirations. The findings indicate…
Can (or should) white women do Black feminist theory: Exploring tensions, contradictions, and intersectionalities while performing justice-focused research
Black feminist thought is produced by and for Black women, but could it be applied by – be the conceptual lens for – others? How do/should I position myself as a white woman doing Black feminist work? How do I de-centre myself, centre Black voices, and also use the power that my whiteness provides to do the type of social justice work Black feminist thought approaches demands? Here, I wrestle with the answers to these questions mainly through my …
The Fatal Coupling of Race, State and Research on Disparities
Modern technology doesn’t only offer greater opportunities for leisure experiences. It opens the door for surveillance and disempowerment as well. As the justice-oriented endeavor of leisure researchers increased over the years, so too has their access to data sources on racialized people made possible by the advent of digital technology. Geospatial datasets are used to extrapolate leisure service disparities and social patterns in predominantly …
The Role of Leisure in the Dehumanization of Black Girlhood: Egypt’s story
With recent reports highlighting the dehumanization of Black girls, the authors attempt to deconstruct the relationship between the racialized gendered oppression they experience and their use of leisure to practice and perform resistance and agency using narrative ethnography. The reality of oppression in the lives of Black girls shows the complex ways dehumanization becomes part of the Black girlhood experience. As we look into the role of leis…
Laughing While Black: Resistance, Coping and the Use of Humor as a Pandemic Pastime among Blacks
For centuries Africans were captured and brought to America in bondage and forced to forge a new culture. The development of a Black culture gave rise to humor as a coping mechanism against the oppressive state they found themselves in. For centuries, humor became a way to protest their conditions by creating various humorous styles that infused social political commentary on oppression as a sign of defiance, while also providing hope for the hop…
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life” @Dnice #ClubQuarantine: Digitally Mediating Ritualistic Leisure Spaces during Isolation
Drawing on the DJ’s divination as hope purveyor and healer, this commentary examines the trendiest club scene during the COVID-19 and worldwide social distancing—#ClubQuarantine. It explores how DJ and producer Derrick “D-Nice” Jones uses Instagram Live to reproduce and perform hope through dual components of his musical sets: 1) participatory/performative healing and 2) cultural preservation. Situating this DJ within the Black Aesthetic, these t…
Power and Social Control of Youth during the Covid-19 Pandemic
While people across the globe adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic, young people have been the center of many news stories. Millions of young people are required to stay home due to school closures, and adults are forced to consider alternative structures to support youths' needs. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed multiple injustices and forms of oppression experienced by the most vulnerable in our country, which includes young people experiencing pove…
The Influence of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in the Academic Performance of Latina/o Students in the United States: A Systematic Literature Review
This review had three aims: (a) examine the relationship between self-efficacy (SE) and academic performance (AP) in Latina/o students, (b) identify the types of measures of SE and AP that have been used, and (c) identify the differences between global and specific measures of SE in predicting academic performance in Latina/o students. Twenty-seven articles were included in the analysis. Major findings included the following: (a) significant and …
Playing While Black
In the United States, black youth face unique challenges that shape “where” they recreate, “who” they participate with, and “how” they engage in recreation. Recent events around the country have highlighted the potential of racial profiling in leisure settings. As a result, black youth and parents remain aware of the potential dangers of participating in recreation activities in public spaces. As black youth and their families are forced to navig…
Examining the Use of Leisure for the Sociopolitical Development of Black Youth in Out-of-School Time Programs
The current social and political climate in the U.S. requires a reexaminationof how marginalized groups shape their leisure around political identity development and resistance. This paper will first provide a brief introduction to the concept of sociopolitical development (SPD) and its role in culture specific out-of-school time programs that serve Black youth. Next, using a multiple case study approach, the authors examined how leisure informs …
Black Spaces/White Spaces: Black Lives, Leisure, and Life Politics
Racial neutrality does not exist within digital and virtual spaces. Our racialized identities are imported into these spaces, as are the ideologies of our respective societies. This reality begs the question, how do Black people situate themselves in digital White leisure spaces, especially when these spaces maintain and replicate off-line spaces of racial discrimination and overt racism? This article presents a background on Black Internet users…
Utilization of an Interorganizational Network Analysis to Evaluate the Development of Community Capacity Among a Community–Academic Partnership
Utilization of an Interorganizational Network Analysis to Evaluate the Development of Community Capacity Among a Community–Academic Partnership Heather R. Clark, DrPH, Albert Ramirez, BA, Kelly N. Drake, MPH, Christopher E. Beaudoin, PhD, Whitney R. Garney, MPH, Monica L. Wendel, DrPH, MS, Corliss Outley, PhD, James N. Burdine, DrPH, and Harold D. Player, SMSgt USAF Retired What is the Purpose of this Study? • To use network analysis to evaluate …
Utilization of an Interorganizational Network Analysis to Evaluate the Development of Community Capacity Among a Community–Academic Partnership
This study provides evidence that the community capacity building efforts within these communities have contributed to beneficial changes in interorganizational relationships. Results from this analysis are useful for understanding how a community partnership's efforts to address access to care can strengthen a community's capacity for future action. Increased collaboration also leads to new assets, resources, and the transfer of knowledge and sk…
Just Spaces: Urban Recreation Centers as Sites for Social Justice Youth Development
Using a social justice youth development (SJYD) framework, this paper explored how urban recreation centers function as "just spaces" for youth and their communities. Utilizing evidence from a photovoice project, a method in which photographs were taken to visually depict the performance of hope, this article examined the experiences of a single case, Sara. Drawing upon Sara's experiences, we examined the importance of recreational spaces in faci…
Exploring Ethnic Variation in Preadolescent Aggressive Girls’ Social, Psychological, and Academic Functioning
The authors examined whether the adjustment patterns of socially and overtly aggressive preadolescent girls, ages 9 to 11 years, from rural communities differed by ethnicity. Students were administered a series of questionnaires to assess the degree to which girls engaged in various forms of aggression and to assess aggressive girls’ social, psychological, and academic functioning. Four clusters of girls—nonaggressive, socially aggressive, and mo…
Black Recreation: A Historical Perspective . Holland, Jearold W. (2002)
Black Recreation: A Historical Perspective. Holland, Jearold W. (2002). Chicago, IL: Burnham Inc., Publishers.Reviewed by Corliss Wilson OutleyDivision of Recreation and Sport StudiesUniversity of MinnesotaMinneapolis, MNIn Black Recreation, Jearold Holland presents, describes and explains the influence of recreation on Black culture and how Black recreation has influenced American culture from before slavery to the present. Dr. Holland's' introd…
The Home They Live In: Inner City Children's Views on the Influence of Parenting Strategies on Their Leisure Behavior
The purpose of this study was to gain insight into how parenting strategies affect African-American children's leisure experiences in socially isolated urban neighborhoods. From the perspective of children, we describe strategies used by their parents and families to combat constraints imposed by poverty and the physical risks in their neighborhood. Over a two-year period, 43 children were interviewed about their leisure experiences within the co…
Just Spaces: Urban Recreation Centers as Sites for Social Justice Youth Development
Using a social justice youth development (SJYD) framework, this paper explored how urban recreation centers function as "just spaces" for youth and their communities. Utilizing evidence from a photovoice project, a method in which photographs were taken to visually depict the performance of hope, this article examined the experiences of a single case, Sara. Drawing upon Sara's experiences, we examined the importance of recreational spaces in faci…
The Home They Live In: Inner City Children's Views on the Influence of Parenting Strategies on Their Leisure Behavior
The purpose of this study was to gain insight into how parenting strategies affect African-American children's leisure experiences in socially isolated urban neighborhoods. From the perspective of children, we describe strategies used by their parents and families to combat constraints imposed by poverty and the physical risks in their neighborhood. Over a two-year period, 43 children were interviewed about their leisure experiences within the co…
Laughing While Black: Resistance, Coping and the Use of Humor as a Pandemic Pastime among Blacks
For centuries Africans were captured and brought to America in bondage and forced to forge a new culture. The development of a Black culture gave rise to humor as a coping mechanism against the oppressive state they found themselves in. For centuries, humor became a way to protest their conditions by creating various humorous styles that infused social political commentary on oppression as a sign of defiance, while also providing hope for the hop…
Power and Social Control of Youth during the Covid-19 Pandemic
While people across the globe adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic, young people have been the center of many news stories. Millions of young people are required to stay home due to school closures, and adults are forced to consider alternative structures to support youths' needs. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed multiple injustices and forms of oppression experienced by the most vulnerable in our country, which includes young people experiencing pove…
Playing While Black
In the United States, black youth face unique challenges that shape “where” they recreate, “who” they participate with, and “how” they engage in recreation. Recent events around the country have highlighted the potential of racial profiling in leisure settings. As a result, black youth and parents remain aware of the potential dangers of participating in recreation activities in public spaces. As black youth and their families are forced to navig…
Black Spaces/White Spaces: Black Lives, Leisure, and Life Politics
Racial neutrality does not exist within digital and virtual spaces. Our racialized identities are imported into these spaces, as are the ideologies of our respective societies. This reality begs the question, how do Black people situate themselves in digital White leisure spaces, especially when these spaces maintain and replicate off-line spaces of racial discrimination and overt racism? This article presents a background on Black Internet users…
The Fatal Coupling of Race, State and Research on Disparities
Modern technology doesn’t only offer greater opportunities for leisure experiences. It opens the door for surveillance and disempowerment as well. As the justice-oriented endeavor of leisure researchers increased over the years, so too has their access to data sources on racialized people made possible by the advent of digital technology. Geospatial datasets are used to extrapolate leisure service disparities and social patterns in predominantly …
Examining the Use of Leisure for the Sociopolitical Development of Black Youth in Out-of-School Time Programs
The current social and political climate in the U.S. requires a reexaminationof how marginalized groups shape their leisure around political identity development and resistance. This paper will first provide a brief introduction to the concept of sociopolitical development (SPD) and its role in culture specific out-of-school time programs that serve Black youth. Next, using a multiple case study approach, the authors examined how leisure informs …
The Role of Leisure in the Dehumanization of Black Girlhood: Egypt’s story
With recent reports highlighting the dehumanization of Black girls, the authors attempt to deconstruct the relationship between the racialized gendered oppression they experience and their use of leisure to practice and perform resistance and agency using narrative ethnography. The reality of oppression in the lives of Black girls shows the complex ways dehumanization becomes part of the Black girlhood experience. As we look into the role of leis…
Exploring Ethnic Variation in Preadolescent Aggressive Girls’ Social, Psychological, and Academic Functioning
The authors examined whether the adjustment patterns of socially and overtly aggressive preadolescent girls, ages 9 to 11 years, from rural communities differed by ethnicity. Students were administered a series of questionnaires to assess the degree to which girls engaged in various forms of aggression and to assess aggressive girls’ social, psychological, and academic functioning. Four clusters of girls—nonaggressive, socially aggressive, and mo…
The Home They Live In: Inner City Children's Views on the Influence of Parenting Strategies on Their Leisure Behavior
The purpose of this study was to gain insight into how parenting strategies affect African-American children's leisure experiences in socially isolated urban neighborhoods. From the perspective of children, we describe strategies used by their parents and families to combat constraints imposed by poverty and the physical risks in their neighborhood. Over a two-year period, 43 children were interviewed about their leisure experiences within the co…
Black Recreation: A Historical Perspective . Holland, Jearold W. (2002)
Black Recreation: A Historical Perspective. Holland, Jearold W. (2002). Chicago, IL: Burnham Inc., Publishers.Reviewed by Corliss Wilson OutleyDivision of Recreation and Sport StudiesUniversity of MinnesotaMinneapolis, MNIn Black Recreation, Jearold Holland presents, describes and explains the influence of recreation on Black culture and how Black recreation has influenced American culture from before slavery to the present. Dr. Holland's' introd…
Exploring Ethnic Variation in Preadolescent Aggressive Girls’ Social, Psychological, and Academic Functioning
The authors examined whether the adjustment patterns of socially and overtly aggressive preadolescent girls, ages 9 to 11 years, from rural communities differed by ethnicity. Students were administered a series of questionnaires to assess the degree to which girls engaged in various forms of aggression and to assess aggressive girls’ social, psychological, and academic functioning. Four clusters of girls—nonaggressive, socially aggressive, and mo…
Utilization of an Interorganizational Network Analysis to Evaluate the Development of Community Capacity Among a Community–Academic Partnership
Utilization of an Interorganizational Network Analysis to Evaluate the Development of Community Capacity Among a Community–Academic Partnership Heather R. Clark, DrPH, Albert Ramirez, BA, Kelly N. Drake, MPH, Christopher E. Beaudoin, PhD, Whitney R. Garney, MPH, Monica L. Wendel, DrPH, MS, Corliss Outley, PhD, James N. Burdine, DrPH, and Harold D. Player, SMSgt USAF Retired What is the Purpose of this Study? • To use network analysis to evaluate …
Utilization of an Interorganizational Network Analysis to Evaluate the Development of Community Capacity Among a Community–Academic Partnership
This study provides evidence that the community capacity building efforts within these communities have contributed to beneficial changes in interorganizational relationships. Results from this analysis are useful for understanding how a community partnership's efforts to address access to care can strengthen a community's capacity for future action. Increased collaboration also leads to new assets, resources, and the transfer of knowledge and sk…
Just Spaces: Urban Recreation Centers as Sites for Social Justice Youth Development
Using a social justice youth development (SJYD) framework, this paper explored how urban recreation centers function as "just spaces" for youth and their communities. Utilizing evidence from a photovoice project, a method in which photographs were taken to visually depict the performance of hope, this article examined the experiences of a single case, Sara. Drawing upon Sara's experiences, we examined the importance of recreational spaces in faci…
The Influence of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in the Academic Performance of Latina/o Students in the United States: A Systematic Literature Review
This review had three aims: (a) examine the relationship between self-efficacy (SE) and academic performance (AP) in Latina/o students, (b) identify the types of measures of SE and AP that have been used, and (c) identify the differences between global and specific measures of SE in predicting academic performance in Latina/o students. Twenty-seven articles were included in the analysis. Major findings included the following: (a) significant and …
Playing While Black
In the United States, black youth face unique challenges that shape “where” they recreate, “who” they participate with, and “how” they engage in recreation. Recent events around the country have highlighted the potential of racial profiling in leisure settings. As a result, black youth and parents remain aware of the potential dangers of participating in recreation activities in public spaces. As black youth and their families are forced to navig…
Examining the Use of Leisure for the Sociopolitical Development of Black Youth in Out-of-School Time Programs
The current social and political climate in the U.S. requires a reexaminationof how marginalized groups shape their leisure around political identity development and resistance. This paper will first provide a brief introduction to the concept of sociopolitical development (SPD) and its role in culture specific out-of-school time programs that serve Black youth. Next, using a multiple case study approach, the authors examined how leisure informs …
Black Spaces/White Spaces: Black Lives, Leisure, and Life Politics
Racial neutrality does not exist within digital and virtual spaces. Our racialized identities are imported into these spaces, as are the ideologies of our respective societies. This reality begs the question, how do Black people situate themselves in digital White leisure spaces, especially when these spaces maintain and replicate off-line spaces of racial discrimination and overt racism? This article presents a background on Black Internet users…
Laughing While Black: Resistance, Coping and the Use of Humor as a Pandemic Pastime among Blacks
For centuries Africans were captured and brought to America in bondage and forced to forge a new culture. The development of a Black culture gave rise to humor as a coping mechanism against the oppressive state they found themselves in. For centuries, humor became a way to protest their conditions by creating various humorous styles that infused social political commentary on oppression as a sign of defiance, while also providing hope for the hop…
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life” @Dnice #ClubQuarantine: Digitally Mediating Ritualistic Leisure Spaces during Isolation
Drawing on the DJ’s divination as hope purveyor and healer, this commentary examines the trendiest club scene during the COVID-19 and worldwide social distancing—#ClubQuarantine. It explores how DJ and producer Derrick “D-Nice” Jones uses Instagram Live to reproduce and perform hope through dual components of his musical sets: 1) participatory/performative healing and 2) cultural preservation. Situating this DJ within the Black Aesthetic, these t…
Power and Social Control of Youth during the Covid-19 Pandemic
While people across the globe adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic, young people have been the center of many news stories. Millions of young people are required to stay home due to school closures, and adults are forced to consider alternative structures to support youths' needs. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed multiple injustices and forms of oppression experienced by the most vulnerable in our country, which includes young people experiencing pove…
The Role of Leisure in the Dehumanization of Black Girlhood: Egypt’s story
With recent reports highlighting the dehumanization of Black girls, the authors attempt to deconstruct the relationship between the racialized gendered oppression they experience and their use of leisure to practice and perform resistance and agency using narrative ethnography. The reality of oppression in the lives of Black girls shows the complex ways dehumanization becomes part of the Black girlhood experience. As we look into the role of leis…
Personal and Contextual Variables Predicting College Aspirations Among Latinx High School Students
This study used path analysis to examine personal and contextual variables that hinder or foster college aspirations in Latinx high school students in the framework of social cognitive career theory (Lent et al., 1994). A total of 247 Latinx high school students from an urban high school in Southern California completed a survey that measured self-efficacy, outcome expectations, supports, and barriers to college aspirations. The findings indicate…
Can (or should) white women do Black feminist theory: Exploring tensions, contradictions, and intersectionalities while performing justice-focused research
Black feminist thought is produced by and for Black women, but could it be applied by – be the conceptual lens for – others? How do/should I position myself as a white woman doing Black feminist work? How do I de-centre myself, centre Black voices, and also use the power that my whiteness provides to do the type of social justice work Black feminist thought approaches demands? Here, I wrestle with the answers to these questions mainly through my …
The Fatal Coupling of Race, State and Research on Disparities
Modern technology doesn’t only offer greater opportunities for leisure experiences. It opens the door for surveillance and disempowerment as well. As the justice-oriented endeavor of leisure researchers increased over the years, so too has their access to data sources on racialized people made possible by the advent of digital technology. Geospatial datasets are used to extrapolate leisure service disparities and social patterns in predominantly …
Developing an eCommunity to enhance campers’ sense of connectedness in the digital landscape
Nuestras Historias: Latino youth stories from upstate South Carolina
Reacting or Responding: The Impact of AI on the Delivery of Leisure-Related Courses
Institutions of higher education are wrestling with developing comprehensive Artificial Intelligence (AI) policies while instructors are taking hard lines in support or opposition to the use of generative AI platforms by students. While generative AI might be fairly new, this reactive approach to dealing with emerging technology in the classroom (i.e. PowerPoint, laptops, mobile devices) is not. With each new development in technology, institutio…
When And Where I Enter: Reclaiming Anna Julia Cooper as a Classical Sociologist in the Study of Leisure
This paper addresses the systematic exclusion of Anna Julia Cooper’s foundational Black feminist thought from the sociological and leisure studies canon. Despite her 1892 work, A Voice from the South, pioneering intersectional analysis and standpoint theory decades before these concepts entered mainstream academia, Cooper remains marginalized. The discipline’s canon was deliberately constructed around white, male, Eurocentric thinkers, creating a…
Afropessimism in Leisure Studies
This paper advances Afropessimism as a necessary philosophical and ontological framework for leisure and recreation studies, arguing that anti-Blackness is not a remediable flaw but a foundational condition of the social order that positions Blackness outside the category of the Human. Grounded in social death theory, it theorizes Blackness through natal alienation, gratuitous violence, and social dishonor, and contends that leisure spaces, often…
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