Religion of a different color : race and the Mormon struggle for whiteness / W. Paul Reeve

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Notes: Includes index.
Contents: All "Mormon Elder-Berry's" children -- "The new race" -- Red, white, and Mormon : "ingratiating themselves with the Indians" -- Red, white, and Mormon : white Indians -- Black, white, and Mormon : amalgamation -- Black, white, and Mormon : black and white slavery -- Black, white, and Mormon : miscegenation -- Black, white, and Mormon : "one drop" -- Oriental, white, and Mormon -- From not white to too white : the continuing contest over the Mormon body
Summary: In this study of Mormonism and its relationship with Protestant white America in the nineteenth century, historian W. Paul Reeve examines the way in which Protestants racialized Mormons by using physical differences to define Mormons as non-white in order to justify the expulsion of Mormons from Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, and, in general, to deny Mormon whiteness and thereby exclude the new religious group from access to political, social, and economic power.--Adapted from publisher description.

Topic: Race relations--Religious aspects--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History; White people--Race identity--History; Race relations--Religious aspects--Mormon Church--History; Indian Mormons--History; African American Mormons--History