TY - BOOK AU - Reeve,W.Paul TI - Religion of a different color: race and the Mormon struggle for whiteness SN - 9780190226282 AV - BX8611 .R44 2015eb U1 - 305.6/893 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Race relations KW - Religious aspects KW - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints KW - History KW - White people KW - Race identity KW - United States KW - Latter Day Saint churches KW - Indian Latter Day Saints KW - African American Latter Day Saints KW - Relations raciales KW - Aspect religieux KW - Église de Jésus-Christ des saints des derniers jours KW - Histoire KW - Églises de Jésus-Christ des saints des derniers jours KW - Saints des derniers jours des Peuples autochtones KW - Saints des derniers jours noirs américains KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Discrimination & Race Relations KW - bisacsh KW - Minority Studies KW - African American Mormons KW - fast KW - Indian Mormons KW - Mormon Church KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - The Protestant white majority in the nineteenth century was convinced that Mormonism represented a racial - not merely religious - departure from the mainstream, and they spent considerable effort attempting to substantiate their claims. At least some of that effort came through persistent attacks on the collective Mormon body. Mormons responded with aspirations toward whiteness. It was a back-and-forth struggle between what outsiders imagined and what Mormons believed. Mormons ultimately emerged triumphant but not unscathed UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1201555 ER -