Item Detail
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30573
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1
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31
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English
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Black, White, and Red All Over : Skin Color in the Book of Mormon
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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2019
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28
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1
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Provo, UT
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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46-68
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Nearly all examinations of race in the Book of Mormon, however, have generally made unfounded assumptions about the book's working racial paradigm, the most recent scholarship not excluded. Though noting the Book of Mormon's prediction about a future racial order, they essentially agree with many others that nineteenth-century notions about race undergird the text's framework. In doing so, they have overlooked or misconstrued its comments on the most prominent feature of Indianness--skin color. While this paper will not respond to all the supposed correspondences between the Book of Mormon's views about race and Joseph Smith's culture, it will demonstrate that the book expressed vastly different presumptions about the complexion of Native Americans.
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