Ebook: All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage

All Abraham's Children is Armand L. Mauss's long-awaited magnum opus on the evolution of traditional Mormon beliefs and practices concerning minorities. He examines how members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have defined themselves and others in terms of racial lineages.
Mauss describes a complex process of the broadening of these self-defined lineages during the last part of the twentieth century as the modern Mormon church continued its world-wide expansion through massive missionary work.
Mauss contends that Mormon constructions of racial identity have not necessarily affected actual behavior negatively and that in some cases Mormons have shown greater tolerance than other groups in the American mainstream.
Employing a broad intellectual historical analysis to identify shifts in LDS behavior over time, All Abraham's Children is an important commentary on current models of Mormon historiography.
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Cover Title Page Contents Preface 1. The Mormon Missionary Impulseand the Negotiation of Identity 2. Mormons and Israelite Lineage 3. From Lamanites to Indians 4. The Return of the Lamanites 5. Old Lamanites, New Lamanites,and the Negotiation of Identity 6. Christian and Mormon Constructionsof Jewish Identity 7. Mormons and Secular Anti-Semitism 8. The Curse of African Lineagein Mormon History 9. The Campaign to Cast Offthe Curse of Cain 10. Reprise Appendix A: Notes on Library andPersonal Sources Appendix B: Supplementary Tablesfor Measuring Mormon Beliefs aboutJews and Blacks Appendix C: Path Diagrams as Summariesof the Formation of Mormon Attitudestoward Jews and Blacks References Index|

Winner of the Best Book Award from the Mormon History Association, 2004. — Mormon History Association
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Armand L. Mauss, a professor emeritus of sociology and religious studies at Washington State University, is the author of The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation, and Social Problems as Social Movements, and the coeditor of Neither White nor Black: Mormon Scholars Confront the Race Issue in a Universal Church.