Description From the Back Cover “The journey you undertake when reading this book will be fraught with eye-opening a-ha moments, often followed by feelings of disbelief and maybe a few tears. Trust me–it will all be for your good.” –Darius A. Gray, Genesis Group counselor, 1971-97; president, 1997-2003″Church leaders have spoken boldly, unequivocally condemning racism. But some members still cling to false traditions of the past. In this slender volume, historian W. Paul Reeve shows how these traditions developed and why they should be thoroughly abandoned.” –Richard E. Turley Jr., former Assistant Church Historian and Recorder About the Author W. Paul Reeve is the Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies in the History Department at the University of Utah, where he teaches courses on Utah history, Mormon history, and the history of the U.S. West. His book Religion of a different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness (Oxford, 2015) has received multiple awards. He is general editor of a digital database, Century of Black Mormons, designed to identify all known people of Black African descent baptized into the faith between 1830 and 1930.
