| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
All "Mormon Elder-Berry's" children -- "The new race" -- Red, white, and Mormon : "ingratiating themselves with the Indians" -- Red, white, and Mormon : white Indians -- Black, white, and Mormon : amalgamation -- Black, white, and Mormon : black and white slavery -- Black, white, and Mormon : miscegenation -- Black, white, and Mormon : one drop -- Oriental, white, and Mormon -- From not white to too white : the continuing contest over the Mormon body |
| Summary |
The Protestant white majority in the nineteenth century was convinced that Mormonism represented a racial - not merely religious - departure from the mainstream, and they spent considerable effort attempting to substantiate their claims. At least some of that effort came through persistent attacks on the collective Mormon body. Mormons responded with aspirations toward whiteness. It was a back-and-forth struggle between what outsiders imagined and what Mormons believed. Mormons ultimately emerged triumphant but not unscathed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History
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White people -- Race identity -- United States -- History
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Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches -- History
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Indian Latter Day Saints -- History
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African American Latter Day Saints -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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African American Mormons
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Indian Mormons
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Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Mormon Church
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White people -- Race identity
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190226282 |
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0190226285 |
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9780190226268 |
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0190226269 |
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9780190226275 |
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0190226277 |
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