Item Detail
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30299
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2
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70
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English
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Mormons and Lineage : The Complicated History of Blacks and Patriarchal Blessings, 1830-2018
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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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83-130
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In this essay, I argue that Mormon leaders created an inchoate, confusing, and unevenly applied policy. Some patriarchs pronounced “the seed of Cain” on Black members during their blessings; others the blessings of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; while still others no lineage at all. Not until the late twentieth century did Mormon leaders begin to address the inconsistent and haphazard manner in which patriarchs declared lineage on Black Latter-day Saints. Eldred G. Smith, the great-great grandnephew of LDS Church founder Joseph Smith and the eighth patriarch of the LDS Church, claimed that Blacks should not receive a lineage designation because God had cursed them, which placed them outside of the House of Israel. His teachings clashed with those of other General Authorities, who averred that persons of African descent should receive a lineage designation. The priesthood revelation of 1978 allowing Black men to receive temple and priesthood privileges only complicated matters.
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All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
"A Negro Preacher" : The Worlds of Elijah Ables
A Soul So Rebellious
Binding Earth and Heaven : Patriarchal Blessings in the Prophetic Development of Early Mormonism
Black and Mormon
Black Mormon Tells Her Story
Black Saviors on Mount Zion : Proxy Baptisms and Latter-day Saints of African Descent
Blacks in Utah History : An Unknown Legacy
Black, White, or Brown? Racial Perceptions and the Priesthood Policy in Latin America
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Compilation on the Negro in Mormonism
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
David O. McKay’s 1954 Confrontation with Mormonism’s Black Priessthood Ban
Doctrines of Salvation : Sermons and Writings of Joseph Fielding Smith
Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Elder Statesman : A Biography of J. Reuben Clark
Elijah Abel and the Changing Status of Blacks Within Mormonism
Elijah Abel : The Life and Times of a Black Priesthood Holder
Evidences and Reconciliations : Aids to Faith in a Modern Day
For the Cause of Righteousness : A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, 1830-2013
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
In the Lord's Due Time
In this Time of Crisis : The Race-Based Anti-BYU Athletic Protests of 1968-1971
"Is There No Blessing for Me?" Jane James's Construction of Space in Latter-day Saint History and Practice
It's You and Me, Lord
James H. Wallis : Poet, Printer and Patriarch
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Last Laborer : Thoughts & Reflections of a Black Mormon
Later Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Lengthen Your Stride : The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball
Lost Legacy : The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch
Lowell L. Bennion : Teacher, Counselor, Humanitarian
Messages of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Minutes of the Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormon Doctrine
Mormonism's Anti-Black Policy and Prospects for Change
Mormonism's Negro Doctrine : An Historical Overview
Mormonism's Problematic Racial Past and the Evolution of the Divine-Curse Doctrine
New Perspectives in Mormon Studies : Creating and Crossing Boundaries
"One Soul Shall Not Be Lost" : The War in Heaven in Mormon Thought
Patriarchal Blessings and the Routinization of Charisma
People of Paradox : A History of Mormon Culture
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Real Native Genius :
How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Religious Accommodation in the Land of Racial Democracy : Mormon Priesthood and Black Brazilians
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks : The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism
Southern Cross Saints : The Mormons in Australia
The Autobiography and Interview of Jane Elizabeth Manning James
The Bruce R. McConkie Story : Reflections of a Son by Joseph Fielding McConkie
The Expanding Church
The Fading of the Pharaoh's Curse : The Decline and Fall of the Priesthood Ban against Blacks in the Mormon Church
The Mormon Church and Blacks : A Documentary History
The Mormon Hierarchy : Extensions of Power
The Mormon Image in the American Mind : Fifty Years of Public Perception
The Mormon Priesthood Ban and Elder Q. Walker Lewis : "An Example for His More Whiter Brethren to Follow"
The Peoples of Utah
The Power of Godliness : Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology
These Things I Know : The autobiography of William Grant Bangerter
The Story of the Negro Pioneer
True and Faithful : Joseph Fielding Smith as Mormon Historian and Theologian
Unto the Islands of the Sea : A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Pacific
When Mormonism Mattered Less in Presidential Politics : George Romney's 1968 Window of Possibilities
William McCary, Lucy Stanton, and the Performance of Race at Winter Quarters and Beyond
William Smith's Patriarchal Blessings and Contested Authority in the Post-Martyrdom Church
Your Sister in the Gospel : The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon