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Race and the Making of the Mormon People (Paperback)
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Race and the Making of the Mormon People (Paperback)
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The nineteenth-century history of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, Max Perry Mueller argues, illuminates the role
that religion played in forming the notion of three ""original""
American races-red, black, and white-for Mormons and others in the
early American Republic. Recovering the voices of a handful of
black and Native American Mormons who resolutely wrote themselves
into the Mormon archive, Mueller threads together historical
experience and Mormon scriptural interpretations. He finds that the
Book of Mormon is key to understanding how early followers
reflected but also departed from antebellum conceptions of race as
biblically and biologically predetermined. Mormon theology and
policy both challenged and reaffirmed the essentialist nature of
the racialized American experience. The Book of Mormon presented
its believers with a radical worldview, proclaiming that all
schisms within the human family were anathematic to God's design.
That said, church founders were not racial egalitarians. They
promoted whiteness as an aspirational racial identity that
nonwhites could achieve through conversion to Mormonism. Mueller
also shows how, on a broader level, scripture and history may
become mutually constituted. For the Mormons, that process shaped a
religious movement in perpetual tension between its racialist and
universalist impulses during an era before the concept of race was
secularized.
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