The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) has consistently found itself on the wrong side of white. Mormon whiteness in the nineteenth century was a contested variable not an assumed fact. Religion of a Different Color traces Mormonism's racial trajectory from not white enough in the nineteenth century, to too white by the twenty-first.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) has consistently found itself on the wrong side of white. Mormon whiteness in the nineteenth century was a contested variable not an assumed fact. Religion of a Different Color traces Mormonism's racial trajectory from not white enough in the nineteenth century, to too white by the twenty-first.
W. Paul Reeve is associate professor of history at the University of Utah and the author of Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes, and co-editor of Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia.
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* Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Introduction All "Mormon Elder-Berry's" Children * Chapter 1 "The New Race" * Chapter 2 Red, White, and Mormon: "Ingratiating themselves with the Indians" * Chapter 3 Red, White, and Mormon: White Indians * Chapter 4 Black, White, and Mormon: Amalgamation * Chapter 5 Black, White, and Mormon: Black and White Slavery * Chapter 6 Black, White, and Mormon: Miscegenation * Chapter 7 Black, White, and Mormon: One Drop * Chapter 8 Oriental, White, and Mormon * Conclusion From Not White to Too White: The Continuing Contest over the Mormon Body * Notes * Index
* Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Introduction All "Mormon Elder-Berry's" Children * Chapter 1 "The New Race" * Chapter 2 Red, White, and Mormon: "Ingratiating themselves with the Indians" * Chapter 3 Red, White, and Mormon: White Indians * Chapter 4 Black, White, and Mormon: Amalgamation * Chapter 5 Black, White, and Mormon: Black and White Slavery * Chapter 6 Black, White, and Mormon: Miscegenation * Chapter 7 Black, White, and Mormon: One Drop * Chapter 8 Oriental, White, and Mormon * Conclusion From Not White to Too White: The Continuing Contest over the Mormon Body * Notes * Index
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