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Winter, 2006
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Black and Mormon. Edited by Newell G. Bringhurst and Darron T. Smith. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. 173 pp. Charts, tables, index. $34.95.)
      In 1978, the LDS Church announced that its prophet/president had received a revelation that all "worthy men" could be ordained to the LDS priesthood. This divine mandate's key significance was that males of African-American ancestry were no longer excluded from the priesthood. Anticipating that this proscription's removal would also eliminate the class barrier within mountain Mormonism, many observers believed that the LDS Church had put the race issue to rest. Because this slim volume of essays mounts a direct and powerful challenge to that assumption, it is an important addition both to the literature on Mormonism and to the literature on race. . . .
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