Black and Mormon
Newell G Bringhurst editor Darron T Smith editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Published:13th Dec '05
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Taking stock of Mormon progress on the developing role of blacks in the church
Features essays that look at the mechanisms used to keep blacks from full participation in the church, the motives behind the ban, and the kinds of changes that have - and have not - taken place within the church since the revelation responsible for its end.The year 2003 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the lifting of the ban excluding black members from the priesthood of the Mormon church. The articles collected in Newell G. Bringhurst and Darron T. Smith's Black and Mormon look at the mechanisms used to keep blacks from full participation, the motives behind the ban, and the kind of changes that have--and have not--taken place within the church since the revelation responsible for its end.
This challenging collection is required reading for anyone concerned with the history of racism, discrimination, and the Latter-day Saints.
"One of the most far-reaching studies of black Mormons to date."--Publishers Weekly
"Bringhurst and Smith have edited an outstanding series of essays on the problems of racism among the Mormons and the exclusion of African American men from the priesthood of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."--Choice
"Black and Mormon eloquently demonstrates how external social events influenced the Church's policy of denying blacks the priesthood for more than a century."--BYU Studies
ISBN: 9780252073564
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
Weight: 254g
184 pages