Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”
…to fit into a broader culture that was suspicious and threatened by his unparalleled talents and charisma. Race and the Making of the Mormon People Max Perry Mueller UNC Press August 2017 These personal experiences with religious and racial “others”—the Mormons and Jason—primed me to fall in love with the story of Jane Manning James (a painting of James graces the book’s cover). In the early 1840s, as a young, single mother in Connecticut, James c…
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