THE CHURCH’S UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF RACE: New Perspectives

A re-visitation of the 1978 Black Revelation from new and different perspectives. The presenters, co-editors of a forthcoming volume, Blacks and Mormons: Race in in American Church, will consider events and circumstances surrounding the revelation within the context of the Church’s “unfinished business of race.” What conditions brought about the revelation? How have Latter-day Saints dealt with Mormon racist scriptural folklore? How did the revelation impact LDS concepts of “whiteness” versus

Newell Bringhurst, Darron Smith