Review: Joanna Brooks. Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Authors

Nichole Renée Phillips

Keywords

race, religion, white supremacy, anti-Black racism, Mormonism

Abstract

Race and religion scholar Joanna Brooks offers an atypical treatment of the imbrication of anti-Black racism and American Christianity in her book, Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence. While treatment of the subject is influenced by her background and membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, readers are given new language and the vocabulary to dissect and understand White supremacy and White racial privilege, particularly regarding how it has infiltrated and operated in the American Christian church. Brooks accomplishes this through content analysis of rare but significant documents and a historical study of the institutionalization of the LDS Church.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Phillips, Nichole Renée (2022) "Review: Joanna Brooks. Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 9: No. 1, Article 13.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol9/iss1/13