628: Black Athletes at BYU with Darron Smith, Ph.D. Pt. 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2016

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

When Race, Religion, and Sport Collide tells the story of Brandon Davies’ dismissal from Brigham Young University’s NCAA playoff basketball team to illustrate the thorny intersection of religion, race, and sport at BYU and beyond. Author Darron T. Smith analyzes the athletes dismissed through BYU’s honor code violations and suggests that they are disproportionately African American, which has troubling implications. He ties these dismissals to the complicated history of negative views towards African Americans in the LDS faith. These honor code dismissals elucidate the challenges facing black athletes at predominantly white institutions. Weaving together the history of the black athlete in America and the experience of blackness in Mormon theology, When Race, Religion, and Sport Collide offers a timely and powerful analysis of the challenges facing African American athletes in the NCAA today.

Dr. Darron T. Smith is a frequent political and cultural commentator on various issues of U.S. based issues of race, racism, and discrimination in forums ranging from Religion Dispatches, The New York Times and Chicago Tribune op-ed to ESPN's Outside the Lines. His research spans a wide myriad of topics on race including healthcare disparities, Religious studies, Race & Sports, and Race, Adoption and the Black Family. His current research focuses on health care workforce discrimination involving African American physicians and physician assistants. He is the co-author of White Parents, Black Children: Experiencing Transracial Adoption and co-editor of Black and Mormon. His current book, When Race & Religion Collide: Black Athletics at BYU and Beyond was released in 2015.

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0:53.0	Hello and welcome back to Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host John DeLin.
0:59.0	The date today is March 18th, 2016 and we're in part two of our interview with Darren Smith.
1:09.0	Author, Dr. Darren Smith, author of When Race, Religion, and Sport Collide, Black Athletes at BYU and Beyond.
1:20.0	Now this is an amazing book. You should buy it. You should read it. I loved it.
1:25.0	We spent the first hour talking about systematic racism theory, about racial frames.
1:34.0	We talked about the history, kind of of, oh I don't know, race in the United States but also of people of color in athletics.
1:45.0	It was a great episode. I really recommend that you go back and listen to that first hour.
1:51.0	It provides a lot of really good context for what we're talking about.
1:56.0	Now, and so what I want to do for this episode, and by the way, it's worth mentioning that this is pretty much the 10-year anniversary of my episode with Darren called Black and Mormon, The Darren Smith Story, which was released on March 30th, 2006.
2:17.0	So it's been 10 years since I interviewed Darren's, Dr. Darren Smith. He's now at the University of Tennessee as what, faculty there?
2:30.0	Yeah, yeah, teaching the PA position assistant program there.
2:34.0	Yeah, and we're just really honored to have you back, Darren, or Dr. Smith. What would you like me to call you?
2:40.0	Call me Darren John.
2:42.0	Okay.
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