TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mueller,Max Perry
TI  - Race and the Making of the Mormon People
SN  - 1469633779
AV  - BX8611 .M77 2017
U1  - 289.3089 23
PY  - 2017///
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Book of Mormon
KW  - Livre de Mormon
KW  - Latter Day Saints
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Latter Day Saint churches
KW  - Membership
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Race
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Églises de Jésus-Christ des saints des derniers jours
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Denominations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - 19th Century
KW  - West United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Prologue. Visions; Introduction. Race on the Page, Race on the Body; 1 The Book of Mormon: A (White) Universal Gospel; 2 Marketing the Book of Mormon to Noah's Three Sons; 3 From Gentile to Israelite; 4 "Aunt Jane" or Joseph's Adopted Daughter?; 5 People Building, on Bodies; 6 People Building, on Paper; Epilogue. Performing Red, Black, and White American; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
N2  - "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"--
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