Race and the making of the Mormon people Max Perry Mueller

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mueller, Max Perry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Book of Mormon.

Latter Day Saint churches--History.

Latter Day Saint churches.

Race--Religious aspects--Latter Day Saint churches.

Race.

Race relations--Religious aspects--Latter Day Saint churches.

Race relations.

Latter Day Saint churches--Membership.

Latter Day Saints--West (U.S.).

Latter Day Saints.

Physical Description:

xii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Max Perry Mueller argues that the nineteenth-century history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints illuminates the role that religion played in the formation of the notion of the three 'original' American races--'red, ' 'black, ' and 'white'--for both Mormons and others in the Intermountain West. Notably recovering the voices of a handful of black and Native American Mormons who persistently wrote themselves into the Mormon archive, Mueller threads together historical experience and scriptural hermeneutics, finding that the Book of Mormon is key to understanding how early Mormons both departed from and reflected antebellum conceptions of race as biblically and biologically predetermined. Mormon thought both challenged and reaffirmed the essentialist nature of the racialized American experience"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : race on the page, race on the body

The Book of Mormon : a (white) universal gospel

Marketing the Book of Mormon to Noah's three sons

From Gentile to Israelite

"Aunt Jane" or Joseph's adopted daughter?

People building, on bodies

People building, on paper

Epilogue : performing red, black, and white American.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-317) and index.

Local Notes:

Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection

ISBN:

9781469633756

1469633752

9781469636160

1469636166

OCLC:

975490959