Darron Smith

Biographic Data

ID3692864
NAMEDarron Smith
GIVEN NAMESDarron
FAMILY NAMESmith
SIGNATURESMITH D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Memphis
ORCID0000-0001-9773-1624
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • The Need for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy in the Black Community and the Burdens of Its Provision

    Open AccessDarron T Smith, Darron Smith et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    Psychedelic medicine is an emerging field that examines entheogens, psychoactive substances that produce non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC). 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is currently in phase-3 FDA clinical trials in the United States (US) and Canada to treat the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). MDMA is used in conjunction with manualized therapy, because of its effectiveness in reducing fear-driven stimuli t…

  • The Real Cost to Remain Competitive

    Open AccessDarron Smith, Lori Latrice Martins et al.ARTICLEReligions2022References: 7

    College sports is a multi-billion-dollar business, and universities are looking for ways to remain competitive, including recruiting and retaining athletes from historically underrepresented groups to predominantly white institutions (PWI), many of which have a documented history of excluding non-white students, including blacks, indigenous peoples, and other people of color (often referred to as BIPOC). This article will examine the legacy of th…

  • The Mask we Must Wear in a Racist Society

    Darron T Smith, Darron Smith et al.ARTICLEDialogue A Journal of Mormon…2021

  • Not a ‘Who Done it’ Mystery

    Open AccessBrenda G Harris, Cleveland Hayes et al.ARTICLEThe Urban Review2020Cited by: 3References: 12

  • Unpacking Whiteness in Zion

    Darron T Smith, Darron SmithCHAPTERBlack and Mormon2018

  • The emotional labor of playing cool

    Darron T Smith, Darron SmithARTICLEJournal of Social Distress and…2015

    This article is concerned with the efforts used by Black male adoptive children to cope with systemic White racial oppression when raised by White adoptive families, specifically the emotional labor expended through the use of cool pose. Drawing from theoretical concepts and frameworks from the social and behavior sciences, this article analyzes the “cool” element as a protective factor and posits this phenomenon is more than esthetic, but instea…

  • Race Lessons in Black and White

    Darron Smith, Darron Terry Smith et al.ARTICLEAdoption Quarterly2014Cited by: 5References: 19

    This article examines the approaches, strategies, and perspectives that White adoptive parents use to teach their adopted Black children about coping with race-based discrimination and the development of a positive racial identity. Using qualitative methods and the theoretical construct of White racial framing, the authors identify and critically analyze themes in the parents' race lessons. The central aim of this article is to uncover how these …

  • White on Black

    Open AccessDarron T Smith, Darron Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Studies2011

    In this article, the authors examine White parents’ endeavors toward the racial enculturation and inculcation of their transracially adopted Black children. Drawing on in-depth interviews, the authors identify and analyze themes across the specific race socialization strategies and practices White adoptive parents used to help their adopted Black children to develop a positive racial identity and learn how to effectively cope with issues of race …

  • Black and Mormon

    Jan Shipps, Newell G Bringhurst et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2006

    Journal Article Black and Mormon Get access Black and Mormon. Edited by Bringhurst Newell G. Smith Darron T.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. 173 pp. Charts, tables, index. $34.95.) Jan Shipps Jan Shipps Indiana University—Purdue University, Indianapolis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2006, Pages 520–521, https://doi.org/10.2307/2544343…

  • These House-Negroes Still Think We're Cursed

    Darron SmithARTICLECultural Studies2005Cited by: 1References: 2

    This essay is an intensely personal account of a teaching experience in Utah. It argues that being African American, progressive and Mormon poses unique challenges in the Mormon-dominated institutions of higher education in Utah. Little known outside ‘Mormondom’, the LDS Church forbade blacks from holding the priesthood until 1978, based on the belief, which persists today, that black skin represents the manifestation of a ‘divine curse’ placed o…