Book

Smith, Darron T., 1965-

When race, religion, and sport collide : Black athletes at BYU and beyond / Darron T. Smith.

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & LIttlefield, [2016]

ix, 217 pages ; 24 cm.

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.

Perspectives on a multiracial America series

Perspectives on a multiracial America series.

Brigham Young University -- Sports.

African American athletes -- Utah -- Provo.

African American Latter Day Saints

Racism in sports -- Utah -- Provo.

Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches

Sports -- Social aspects -- United States.

African American athletes.

African American athletes -- Social conditions.

United States -- Race relations.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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."

2015034699

9781442217881 (cloth : alk. paper)

144221788X (cloth : alk. paper)

* 9781442217904 (electronic)

9781442217881 (cloth : alk. paper) sa5: : (OCoLC)920853689

920853689

1

0

1

647098

1

1

796.043 Smith