Religion of a Different Color - Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness

Zusatztext This will be the definitive work on race and Mormonism from the religions origins to the early twentieth century Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: W Paul Reeve, W. Paul Reeve, W. Paul (Associate Professor of History and Reeve, W. Paul (Associate Professor of History and Associate Chair Reeve, Reeve W. Paul
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 09.04.2015
• EAN: 9780199754076
• ISBN: 978-0-19-975407-6
• Seiten: 352
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Christentum; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Other Nonconformist & Evangelical Churches, Other Nonconformist and Evangelical Churches