How the Mormons Became White
How the Mormons Became White
Scripture, Sex, Sovereignty
This essay scrutinizes the place of race and indigeneity in The Book of Mormon, paying special attention to the ways questions of origins work themselves out in relation to the text’s altogether singular narrative form. Taking up the strains of anti-imperial critique to be found in the work—its glancing vision of the putative heroes, the Nephites, as self-blinded imperialists—the essay examines how precisely this sense of the political morality of The Book of Mormon played out in the Mormons’ ventures into the West, where it came to be routed through the Saints’ fractured identifications and disidentifications with Native peoples, with the imperial United States, and with their own scriptural forebears.
Keywords: indigeneity, imperialism, first-person narration, colonialism, critique
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