[…] emerging field of whiteness studies in the US asks some provocative questions: How do outsiders lay claim to citizenship? How do minorities shed their image as un-American? How do they, in other words, become […]
[…] shoulder the cost of maintaining the building, but the tabernacle could be saved if someone else would buy it. The price was set: sixty-six thousand dollars. The committee took to the streets in fundraising […]
[…] mem- bers who participate in same-sex marriages as “apostates” and forbade children in their households from receiving baby blessings or baptisms sparked ongoing attention to the topic of LGBTQ Mormon well-being, mental health, and suicides.
[…] in sending my children to integrated schools because I believe all men are created equal”; and ( 3) overt behavior consistent with both generalized value and resultant specific attitudes, such as willingness to join […]
Thus Clinton Larson in an interview published in Dialogue for Autumn 1969. Dr. Larson, whom Karl Keller has described as the first “Mormon poet,” also affirmed a hope that “If . . . literary […]
<i>Dialogue 10.2 (Summer 1977): 12–46</i><br>The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing an […]
<i>Dialogue 12.2 (Summer 1979): 22–36</i><br>Elijah Abel, a black man ordained to the priesthood, was restricted in his church participation starting in 1843, even though he was well respected by both members and leaders. Newell […]
[…] toilet paper, but it was used in only a few days. We asked the Communist cadre to buy some for us. We would give them money and for the first while they would buy […]
[…] we’ll show you the butcher business.” As I walked out, I thought of the Ford Mustang I’d buy now I was working—it would be one hot car! And I saw the old boy in […]
[…] counsel present. So I’ll grab a sandwich at the drugstore.” “Okay,” she said. “I guess I’ll go buy myself a steak.” She was standing at the meat counter when a man in greasy khakis […]