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- What does it mean when a white person says, “Well, she doesn’t sound black.”
- What are the possible reasons that some urban Black Americans have a different accent than white Americans?
Dr. Darron Smith
Dr. Darron T. Smith is a faculty member at the University of Memphis in the Department of Sociology. He is frequent political and cultural contributor for Huffington Post on various issues of inequality in the form of racism, classism and other systems of U.S. based oppression. He has also contributed to various forums from Religion Dispatches and ESPN's Outside the Lines to The New York Times and Chicago Tribune op-ed sections. Dr. Smith’s research spans a wide myriad of topics on including healthcare disparities, Religious Studies, Race & Sports, Stress & Mindfulness, Transracial Adoption and the Black Family. His current research focuses on healthcare workforce discrimination involving African American physician assistants. His is the author of, When Race, Religion & Sports Collide: Blacks Athletes at BYU and Beyond, was recently released to critical praise in November 2016.
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This was a great episode. I wonder if you are familiar with the podcast Revisionist History. The last 2 episodes there have had race themes. I learned things I didn’t know about the desegregation of schools and the negative effect this had on teachers. Towards the beginning of your podcast I was reminded of this. As always there are more than one way to tell the story, and what is usually in popular culture or history may not reflect the full story.