49. Joanna Brooks - Understanding the Past to Create a Better Future

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🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we speak with Joanna Brooks, author of a new book exploring the Church's problematic history on the issue of race. Joanna holds a Ph.D. in English from UCLA. She’s the Associate Vice President for Faculty Advancement at San Diego State University, and has written or edited ten books on race, religion, gender, social movements, and American culture.

As we all continue to grapple with issues of race not just in America but in our own faith, we thought it was important to understand how we got where we are. Joanna helps us explore the history of the Church as it relates to race — she illustrates where we could and should have done better in addition to telling the stories of heroes who stood up against racism even at great personal cost.

We’re really grateful to Joanna for coming on the podcast, and for her willingness to share what she’s learned over many years of research. We hope you enjoy the conversation.

Resources:

Mormonism and White Supremacy, Joanna Brooks:
https://www.amazon.com/Mormonism-White-Supremacy-American-Innocence-ebook/dp/B08761ZHCP

The Color of Money, Mehrsa Baradaran
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076526LW5/

The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness-ebook/dp/B086CFB2NT/

13th
https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741

When They See Us
https://www.innocenceproject.org/central-park-five-tragedy-reframed-in-netflix-series-when-they-see-us/

Between the World and Me, Ta-Nahisi Coates
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SEFAIRI/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Before we get started I just wanted to tell you about a new book from
0:04.4	Faith Matters Publishing. It's called Restoration by Patrick Mason. When we started the
0:08.8	Faith Matters Publishing project one of our goals was to explore what
0:11.9	restoration really means as the church moves into its third century
0:15.2	and that's exactly what Patrick does. If you're like me and you've ever wondered how restoring Israel
0:19.9	can be relevant to you, you've got to read this book. Patrick shows how as members of the
0:24.4	church it's our mission to truly lead out in bringing wholeness and healing to the
0:28.2	marginalized and the vulnerable. This book absolutely lit a fire for me and it has
0:32.2	totally changed the way I view my own engagement with the church and with the world.
0:36.0	I really can't recommend this book strongly enough.
0:38.5	It's the kind of book you want everyone you know to be reading to so that you can talk about it. So you can pick up a copy for
0:43.9	yourself or for your friends and family at Desert Book, Amazon, Audible, and Apple
0:48.3	Books. Okay that's it on the book for now but we'll be sharing a lot more in the
0:51.5	near future. Thanks as always and here's the episode.
0:54.0	Hey everyone, this is Tim Chavez from Faith Matters.
0:59.0	In this episode we speak with Joanna Brooks,
1:02.0	author of the new book Mormonism and a white
1:04.1	supremacy. Joanna holds a PhD in English from UCLA. She's the Associate Vice
1:09.0	President for Faculty Advancement at San Diego State University and has written or edited 10 books on race,
1:14.4	religion, gender, social movements, and American culture. As we all continue to grapple
1:19.3	with issues of race, not just in America, but in our own faith, we thought it was important to understand how we got where we are.
1:25.0	Joanna helps us explore the history of the church as it relates to race.
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