I'm honored to have Race and the Making of the Mormon People featured in the September 13 edition of Nebraska Today. Where did the notion of race arise? Historians and social scientists have long sought to answer this question, identifying ebbs and flows in its cultural significance, yet never reaching agreement on how it began. After spending [...]
Yesterday, my book, Race and the Making of the Mormon People, ***officially*** dropped. Of course, I've been looking forward to this day for months, years even. And though the book has been shipping from the University of North Carolina Press (and from that "everything store" on the Internet) for more than a month now, it [...]
I've just finished writing inscriptions of thanks into copies of the book, which I'm sending out to my many mentors, advisors, critics, cheerleaders, and readers. I hope that now I can also call them colleagues. This exercise got me thinking about lineages. "Lineage," more than the category of "race," is the more accurate term for [...]
I'm honored to receive this advance praise for Race and the Making of the Mormon People from two of the most celebrated scholars in Mormonism. "Max Perry Mueller’s brilliant analysis substantively enriches a growing body of excellent work on Mormonism and race. Mueller offers profound insight into both the tradition’s American sojourn and the nation’s wrenching [...]
Max Perry Mueller 