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Volume 51, No. 3

Fall 2018

The Fall issue commemorates the lifting of the priesthood ban and in true Dialogue style, scholars discuss and dissect it’s implications. Lester Bush starts the issues by “Looking Back, Looking Forward” while Joanna Brooks examines “Possessive Investment in Rightness.” Robert Greenwell looks at “One Devout Mormon Family’s Struggle With Racism.” Matthew Harris includes a groundbreaking study on “Mormons and Lineage: The Complicated History of Blacks and Patriarchal Blessings, 1830-2018.” And Dialoguing around the Roundtable is the voices of Alice Faulkner Burch, Janan Graham-Russell, Gail Turley Houston, Melodie Jackson and Cameron McCoy. And Darron Smith discusses “Negotiating Black Self-Hate Within the LDS Church.” And so much more!

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  • race, priesthood, temple, ban

Contents

Articles/Essays

Looking Back, Looking Forward: “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine” 45 Years Later



2018: Lester Bush, “Looking Back, Looking Forward: “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine” 45 Years Later” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 51 No. 3 (2018):1–28. It has been forty-five years since Dialogue published Bush’s essay entitled “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview”2 and forty years since Official Declaration 2 ended the priesthood/temple ban. It...

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Interview

Interview: Father-Daughter Interview on Blacks and the Priesthood



2018: Egide Nzojibwami & Verlyne Christensen: Interviewed by Gregory A. Prince, “Interview: Father-Daughter Interview on Blacks and the Priesthood” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 51 No. 3 (2018):213–136. A beautiful interview wherein Christensen said “If we look at an organization being a circle, there are a lot of people who are...

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Poetry

Reviews

Roundtable

Roundtable: The Preacher, the Labor Leader, the Homosexual, and the Jew: The Template for Achieving Great Goals



2018: Alice Faulkner Burch, “Roundtable: The Preacher, the Labor Leader, the Homosexual, and the Jew: The Template for Achieving Great Goals” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 51 No. 3 (2018):181–185. Burch explains “Individually we can be strong and accomplish wonderful things. Together, united, we can be unstoppable and accomplish great things...

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Roundtable: A Balm in Gilead: Reconciling Black Bodies within a Mormon Imagination



Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 185–192
“As much we may hope that one would disregard the explicitly racial teachings of the past, the significance of corporeality in the Mormon imagination is such that Mormonism’s racial wounds run deep. With-out a thoughtful consideration of the impact of the priesthood and temple restrictions, their legacy manifests in implicit and explicit ways.”



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Roundtable: When Did You Become Black?



Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 193–200
After taking a genelogy DNA test, Houston finds some African ancestory. “Where to begin in answering all those questions? But at the most basic level, I simply liked that I was from Africa. The percentage was small but the jolt large and wondrous. In the nineteenth century, the United States had the one-drop rule about race: if you had one drop of African blood you were considered to be Black.”



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Roundtable: Shifting Tides: A Clarion Call for Inclusion and Social Justice



Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 201–208
“What can we do to help and make a difference in the fight for racial and social justice?” McCoy responds to the BYU students who asked these questions which he brought up in an annual MLK March on Life held by BYU was ‘stop tiptoeing around the subjects of race, inequality, and inclusion. Many well intentioned white people in this country do not understand how the deeply rooted systems of racism and inequality function.’ He encouraged people to step up and do their own part for obtaining social justice for all.



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Roundtable: The Black Cain in White Garments



Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 209–211
Jackson explains “The Church refused to grant the Black body whole recognition and divinity. To Nephi, I was not fair and delightsome. To Joseph, I was a violator of the most sacred principles of society, chastity, and virtue. To Brigham, I was Cain’s curse. To McConkie, I was an unfaithful spirit, a “fence-sitter.” To you, I am colorless, my Blackness swallowed in that whiteness reclaimed, “a child of God.”



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Sermon

Volume Art