Arthur S. Evans Jr.

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  www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flrndb - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/26/2008    Last Visited: 7/26/2008  

  Art Evans, by any standard, has made it.
  
  He has taught at Florida Atlantic University for 30 years.He left Baltimore's inner city to later earn a doctorate in sociology from Kansas State University.He and his wife own a home in Boca Raton.
  
  But as an African-American man, "I'm always on guard," he says.
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  While Evans watched from his home, Albert Tucker of the Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Fort Lauderdale was among the 150 people who got in to the Dave & Buster's screening.

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  Published on: 4/5/2007    Last Visited: 4/5/2007  

  As more black Americans become affluent, sports such as golf, once considered primarily games for white athletes, have drawn more black players, said Arthur Evans, a sociologist at Florida Atlantic University who teaches a course on the sociology of sports.
  
  "Golf is a middle-class game compared to basketball, football and boxing," he said.

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  Published on: 3/22/2007    Last Visited: 3/22/2007  

  Sociology professor Arthur Evans at Florida Atlantic University said the new data reflect a gradual exodus of elderly residents -- people 75 or older who might be returning to an earlier stomping ground after a spouse dies, or moving in with their children.
  
  "We still have people coming here," he said."They are people with disposable income."
  
  Evans said South Florida continues to attract blacks, but many of those coming were "black professionals, educated blacks from the Caribbean, who are members of the middle class and upper class."

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  Published on: 3/22/2007    Last Visited: 3/22/2007  

  Sociology professor Arthur Evans at Florida Atlantic University said South Florida continues to attract blacks, but many of those coming were "black professionals, educated blacks from the Caribbean, who are members of the middle class and upper class."
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  "Broward and Palm Beach counties have become magnets for the yuppie elderly," Evans said.

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  Boca Raton's Pearl City's early days are profiled in... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/10/2005    Last Visited: 7/10/2005  

  "Pearl City is one of a few black areas in South Florida east of the railroad tracks, and they have tried their darndest to get us out of here," says a display that includes comments from oral histories recorded by Florida Atlantic University sociology professor Arthur Evans and geography professor David Lee.
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  Nothing was left to chance with respect to the position of black people," Evans said."It was understood that you're on this side of the tracks and we're on the other side of the tracks.It was very clear about the way you are to approach whites, what you can and cannot do."
  
  He examined the South Florida community, particularly because it was different from the path taken by many blacks at the time who sought equality and independence in the more industrialized North.
  
  "I realized that with my education and experiences, I've grown socially distant from the black community," said Evans, 53, who was raised in a black, inner city Baltimore neighborhood and lives with his wife of 27 years, Annette, who is white, in an upscale, tree-lined Boca Raton community.
  
  "I'm very interested in marginality, where an individual is caught between two worlds, never really feeling comfortable in either one.It can be a very lonely world," Evans said.

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  Published on: 1/15/2005    Last Visited: 1/15/2005  

  Arthur S. Evans Jr., professor of sociology at Florida Atlantic University, will be the guest speaker.

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  Published on: 9/9/2004    Last Visited: 9/10/2004  

  "We just got our power and phone service back today," said Arthur Evans, a sociology professor at Florida Atlantic University.

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  Published on: 4/11/2004    Last Visited: 12/6/2004  

  Arthur Evans, Florida Atlantic University, was quoted in a July 30 Miami Herald article about Bill Cosby's comments regarding African-American youth.

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  Published on: 7/30/2004    Last Visited: 7/31/2004  

  Arthur Evans, a Florida Atlantic University sociology professor, said that while some of Cosby's comments are valid, the entertainer missed the larger social context in which the problems developed.
  
  "The behaviors that he is describing have been magnified and left unchecked because middle class blacks no longer live close to lower-status blacks," Evans said.

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  Published on: 1/25/2005    Last Visited: 1/25/2005  

  ARTHUR S. EVANS JR.
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  Editor's note: Arthur S. Evans Jr. teaches sociology of sport courses at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.

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