When Race, Religion, and Sport Collide

Darron T. Smith

doi:10.5771/9781442217904

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.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-1788-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-1790-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 217
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
1 The Meaning of Sport in the Popular Imagination No access Pages 9 - 22
2 The Origins of Racism and Framing No access Pages 23 - 40
3 The White Racial Framing of Blacks in Mormon Theology No access Pages 41 - 62
4 Political Uprising in the Late Sixties and Early Seventies No access Pages 63 - 80
5 Mormon Attitudes toward Civil Rights No access Pages 81 - 100
6 No Honor in the Honor Code No access Pages 101 - 120
7 Colorblindness and the Health Consequences to Black Male Student-Athletes through the Illusion of a Free Education No access Pages 121 - 140
8 Pipeline to a Pipedream No access Pages 141 - 156
Notes No access Pages 157 - 204
Index No access Pages 205 - 216
About the Author No access Pages 217 - 217