“BLACK, WHITE, AND MORMON: RACE AND THE MORMON STRUGGLE FOR WHITENESS”
While most people are familiar with the nineteenth-century racial policies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, few are equally familiar with the ways in which outsiders conflated Mormons with blacks. This lecture explores the ways in which outsiders racialized Mormons in the nineteenth-century, denigrated them as “white slaves,” facilitators of racial contamination, and “Mormon coons.” In a national racial context that privileged whiteness at every turn, Mormons responded out of efforts to claim whiteness for themselves. It was a struggle that had far reaching implications, from the nineteenth-century to the twenty-first, and from Brigham Young to Mitt Romney.
Monday, October 15, 2012
7:00 PM
Weber State University Alumni Center
1235 East 4100 South
Ogden, Utah
Public Invited; No Charge
Co-Sponsored by William Critchlow
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5 thoughts on ““Black, White, and Mormon”: Paul Reeve on Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness –TONIGHT”
I would love to be there for this at my alma mater and in my hometown, but alas, I am going to be 800 miles away.
Will there be a publication of the research and conversations from the conference? I would love to be there, but traveling is just not part of life right now.
The title comes from Paul’s forthcoming book, so his thoughts will be published in that, rather than just whatever part of his book makes it into this lecture. I hope to be able to report it coherently enough that we can have a conversation here.
I would love to be there for this at my alma mater and in my hometown, but alas, I am going to be 800 miles away.
Will there be a publication of the research and conversations from the conference? I would love to be there, but traveling is just not part of life right now.
The title comes from Paul’s forthcoming book, so his thoughts will be published in that, rather than just whatever part of his book makes it into this lecture. I hope to be able to report it coherently enough that we can have a conversation here.
Got it. So will there be other panelists too?
No, this time it’s a solo lecture.