Abstract
This essay is an intensely personal account of a teaching experience in Utah. It argues that being African American, progressive and Mormon poses unique challenges in the Mormon-dominated institutions of higher education in Utah. Little known outside ‘Mormondom’, the LDS Church forbade blacks from holding the priesthood until 1978, based on the belief, which persists today, that black skin represents the manifestation of a ‘divine curse’ placed on black people. The author spends a lot of time in the classroom directly confronting this sort of overtly racist discourse. His article shares anecdotes about confronting religiously based racism, and explores, in particular, the resistance of African-American Mormon students to counter-hegemonic discourses.
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