Mormons and Race

Go read Russell Stevenson's review of Paul Reeve's Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness (OUP, 2015). A sample quotation: "Reeve argues that Mormonism represented more than a strain of religiosity in nineteenth-century America; it also served as a prism revealing how complex racial attitudes could be."

If you want more on this topic, you can also go read my review of Russell's own book, For the Cause of Righteousness: A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, 1830-2013 (Kofford Books, 2013). It has been a great year for LDS books!