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When race, religion, and sport collide : Black athletes at BYU and beyond
- Title
- When race, religion, and sport collide : Black athletes at BYU and beyond / Darron T. Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Darron T., 1965-
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & LIttlefield, [2016]
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- Description
- ix, 217 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Weaving together the history of the black athlete in America and the experience of blackness in Mormon theology, the author tells the story of Brandon Davies' dismissal from Brigham Young University's NCAA playoff basketball team, analyzing the thorny intersection of race and sport at BYU and the challenges facing African American athletes in general in the NCAA today.--From publisher description.
- Series Statement
- Perspectives on a multiracial America series
- Uniform Title
- Perspectives on a multiracial America series.
- Subjects
- African American Mormons
- Black author
- African American athletes > Utah > Provo
- Racism in sports > Utah > Provo
- Race relations > Religious aspects > Mormon Church
- Brigham Young University Sports
- African American athletes > Social conditions
- Sports > Social aspects > United States
- Race relations > Religious aspects > Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- United States > Race relations
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The meaning of sport in the popular imagination : the collision of race, religion, and sport -- The origins of racism and framing : setting the stage for the history of blacks in sport -- The white racial framing of blacks in Mormon theology -- Black student revolts and political uprising in the late sixties and early seventies : fanning the flame of black student-athlete revolts -- Mormon attitudes toward civil rights : it's God's law, we're not racist! -- No honor in the honor code : the suspension of Brandon Davies and the incompatibility nexus between blackness and Mormonism -- Colorblindness and the health consequences to black male student-athletes through the illusion of a free education -- Pipeline or pipedream : the elusiveness of change in the era of "black lives matter."
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-21
- ISBN
- 9781442217881
- 144221788X
- 9781442217904 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015034699
- OCLC
- 920853689
- Author
- Smith, Darron T., 1965-
- Title
- When race, religion, and sport collide : Black athletes at BYU and beyond / Darron T. Smith.
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & LIttlefield, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Perspectives on a multiracial America seriesPerspectives on a multiracial America series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-21