Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence by Joanna Brooks

Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence

Joanna Brooks

240 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history race religion informative reflective slow-paced

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To this day, churchgoing Mormons report that they hear from their fellow congregants in Sunday meetings that African-Americans are the accursed descendants of Cain whose spirits--due to their lack of spiritual mettle in a premortal existence--were...

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