The Lamanite Dilemma: Mormonism and Indigeneity
August 13, 2021[…] grew up ashamed of who I was. This dark skin, I was told, was a curse. My black eyes and thick black hair were not the idealized beauty of blue and wispy yellow. There […]
[…] grew up ashamed of who I was. This dark skin, I was told, was a curse. My black eyes and thick black hair were not the idealized beauty of blue and wispy yellow. There […]
[…] Mel was a University of Wyoming football player–one of fourteen removed from the team after wearing black arm bands to protest BYU and the LDS Church’s priesthood/temple restrictions. In this conversation, they discuss […]
[…] the homes of our colored (Negro) members of record! And when Church members translate whatever sanction a black skin imposes within the Church into their daily lives and will not (for instance) sell a […]
[…] Latter-day Saints to reconsider its historical stance on race, particularly its practice of denying full fellowship to Black individuals. Udall argues that this practice, rooted in the belief in a divine curse on Black […]
[…] podcast Quincy Newell discusses “Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon.” From the Miller Eccles website: “Dear Brother,” Jane Manning James wrote to Joseph F. Smith in […]
[…] used to know. Where was Orion, its belt and sword glowing bright with mythic power against the black as it did from the La Sal mountains? Where was Cygnus, the swan? Where was the […]
[…] Alternate Realities (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995), 21. Charles D. Broad, foreword to Swan on a Black Sea: A Study in Automatic Writ ing: The Cummins-Willett Scripts, by Geraldine Cummins (London: Routledge and […]
[…] or trajectory. This idea is not exclusively limited to Widtsoe. In my work in the Mormon feminist community, it has been condescendingly explained to me by critics that women who desire ordination risk shirking […]
[…] rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to remain unrealized for the significant majority of Black Americans. True justice must be a reality for all of God’s children. Therefore, “inclusion” must be […]
[…] working on the case of the fellow from the trailer court who had given his wife a black eye. The wife had decided not to press charges, which didn’t please Leanne. She figured he […]