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Mormonism and white supremacy : American religion and the problem of racial innocence / Joanna Brooks.

Author/creator Brooks, Joanna, 1971-
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Descriptionpages cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Religion
Subject(s)
Contents American Christianity, white supremacy and racial innocence -- The religious micropolitics of white over black : early Mormonism -- Originalism, infallibility, and the institutionalization of white supremacy, 1880s to 1940s -- The production of national racial innocence: 1950s-1960s -- white privilege, racial innocence, and the costs of anti-racist dissent, 1940s-1980s -- The Persistence of white supremacy beyond desegregation -- Dismantling white supremacy and racial innocence.
Abstract "This book examines the role of white American Christianity in fostering and sustaining white supremacy. It draws from theology, critical race theory, and American religious history to make the argument that predominantly white Christian denominations have served as a venue for establishing white privilege and have conveyed to white believers a sense of moral innoeence without requiring moral reckoning with the costs of anti-Black racism. To demonstrate these arguments, Brooks draws from Mormon history from the 1830s to the present, from an archive that includes speeches, historical documents, theological treatises, Sunday School curricula, and other documents of religious life"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2019041568
ISBN9780190081768 (hardback)
ISBN(epub)

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