Darron Smith

Darron T. Smith
Occupation(s)	Scholar, clinician, educator, author and blogger
Academic background
Education	Brigham Young University–Idaho Brigham Young University (MEd) University of Utah (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	Healthcare, sociology, race-based trauma, neurosociology, psychedelic healing
Sub-discipline	neurosociology, applied neurosciencee
Notable works	Black and Mormon White Parents, Black Children When Race, Religion, and Sports Collide

Darron Smith is an African-American scholar, author and blogger. His research and scholarly writing focuses on social injustices impacting African Americans and other marginalized groups in the US. His work includes the study and impact of race on US health care, the practice of white parents adopting black and biracial children,^[1] religion, sports, politics and other pertinent subject matters of present time.^[2][3]

Smith's most known work is the 2004 book, Black and Mormon, a book-length anthology exploring black Mormons and their place in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since the 1978 priesthood revelation that lifted the ban on blacks holding priesthood in the church. His most recent book, When Race, Religion and Sport Collide: Black athletes at BYU and Beyond, explores African American male student-athletes through the medium of sport in the era of the Black Lives Matter movement.^[4]