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Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence
Contributor(s): Brooks, Joanna (Author)

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 ISBN: 0190081767     ISBN-13: 9780190081768
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $40.84  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity - Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (mormon)
- Religion | Religion, Politics & State
- Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations
Dewey: 289.308
LCCN: 2019041568
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" L (1.10 lbs) 240 pages
 
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To this day, churchgoing Mormons report that they hear from their fellow congregants in Sunday meetings that African-Americans are the accursed descendants of Cain whose spirits--due to their lack of spiritual mettle in a premortal existence--were destined to come to earth with a curse of
black skin. This claim can be made in many Mormon Sunday Schools without fear of contradiction. You are more likely to encounter opposition if you argue that the ban on the ordination of Black Mormons was a product of human racism. Like most difficult subjects in Mormon history and practice, says
Joanna Brooks, the priesthood and temple ban on Blacks has been managed carefully in LDS institutional settings with a combination of avoidance, denial, selective truth-telling, and determined silence.
As America begins to come to terms with the costs of white privilege to Black lives, this book urges a soul-searching examination of the role American Christianity has played in sustaining everyday white supremacy by assuring white people of their innocence. In Mormonism and White Supremacy, Joanna
Brooks offers an unflinching look at her own people's history and culture and finds in them lessons that will hit home for every scholar of American religion and person of faith.
 
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