Item Detail
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30297
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2
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9
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English
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Negotiating Black Self-Hate within the LDS Church
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Fall 2018
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51
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3
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Farmington, UT
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Dialogue Journal
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29-44
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It has been forty years since the landmark decision by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to end its long-standing restriction on people of African descent from full participation and recognition as worthy spiritual beings in a majority white religion. Since the ban on Black priesthood ordination was lifted in June 1978, subsequently allowing every worthy Black male access to its lay priesthood and all Black men and women their temple ordinances, the Church has made small strides and modest growth in the expansion of its Black urban membership. It is hard to know for certain the exact number of Black members in the Church, as the institution purportedly does not keep records based on racial demographics; however, in 2009, the Pew Research Center estimated that around 3 percent of US Mormons are Black.
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The Mormon Church and Blacks : A Documentary History
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