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Author Reeve, W. Paul, author.

Title Religion of a different color : race and the Mormon struggle for whiteness / W. Paul Reeve.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.6893 R259r 2015    ---  Available
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Description xii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-321) and index.
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 In this study of Mormonism and its relationship with Protestant white America in the nineteenth century, historian W. Paul Reeve examines the way in which Protestants racialized Mormons by using physical differences to define Mormons as non-white in order to justify the expulsion of Mormons from Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, and, in general, to deny Mormon whiteness and thereby exclude the new religious group from access to political, social, and economic power.--Adapted from publisher description.
Subject Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History.
Whites -- Race identity -- United States -- History.
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Mormon Church -- History.
Indian Mormons -- History.
African American Mormons -- History.
African American Mormons. (OCoLC)fst00798984
Indian Mormons. (OCoLC)fst01909713
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. (OCoLC)fst01086534
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Mormon Church. (OCoLC)fst01086542
Whites -- Race identity. (OCoLC)fst01174825
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780199754076 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0199754071 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

 
    
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