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Mormonism and white supremacy : American religion and the problem of racial innocence / Joanna Brooks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brooks, Joanna, 1971- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--United States--History.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Race relations--Religious aspects--Latter Day Saint churches--History.
- Race relations.
- Race relations--Religious aspects--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History.
- White supremacy movements--Religious aspects--History.
- White supremacy movements.
- Latter Day Saint churches--United States--History.
- Latter Day Saint churches.
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- 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 were destined to come to earth with a 'curse' of black skin. 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.
- Contents:
- American Christianity, white supremacy and racial innocence
- The religious micropolitics of white over black : early Mormonism
- Originalism, infallibility, and the institutionalization of white supremacy, 1880s to 1940s
- The production of national racial innocence: 1950s-1960s
- white privilege, racial innocence, and the costs of anti-racist dissent, 1940s-1980s
- The Persistence of white supremacy beyond desegregation
- Dismantling white supremacy and racial innocence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-008177-5
- 0-19-008178-3
- 0-19-008175-9
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