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English
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Building Community and Identity Among Black Latter-day Saints : Toward Completing the Flock Through Conference Connections
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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism
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Cham, Switzerland
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Palgrave Macmillan
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705-725
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"Rather than a detached academic essay, this chapter offers a personal account of my own irregular journey as a Black member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, similar in general terms, I believe, to the experiences of many other Black Latter-day Saints. My account emphasizes the particular, simultaneous problem of finding and strengthening a positive identity as both a Black person in American society at large as well as being a Black member of a church burdened by a past history of racial discrimination." [Author]