This presentation will explore how committed Latter-day Saints can reshape old narratives of Utah settlement in ways that are more complete. W. Paul Reeve
Speaker: W. Paul Reeve
From Not White Enough To Too White The Historical Evolution Of A Mormon Race
Drawing upon scholarship from his recent book, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness, Paul Reeve explores the ways in which outside observers racialized Mormons as not white enough in the nineteenth century. Mormons responded by trying to claim whiteness for themselves, even at the expense of their own black …
From Not White Enough To Too White The Historical Evolution Of A Mormon Race
Drawing upon scholarship from his recent book, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness, Paul Reeve explores the ways in which outside observers racialized Mormons as not white enough in the nineteenth century. Mormons responded by trying to claim whiteness for themselves, even at the expense of their own black …