Welcome to Pure White, a podcast about sexual purity and white supremacy.

I'm your host Sarah Mossler.

For 15 years, I've studied this thing we now call evangelical purity culture.

So we're going back to the times and places where sexual purity was a prominent tool for maintaining a social order

premised on racial inequality.

But the foundational concept of sexual purity in the United States has a deep and complicated history that goes back well over 150 years.

Uncovering this history demonstrates how sexual purity was constructed as an exclusive category

for white women, providing them with protection and status, while denying the same to other women,

enslaved, immigrant, and other women of color.

In the United States, purity and impurity have always been racially coded.

To be white is to be free and pure.

To not be white is to be suspect and impure.

Purity culture didn't just form us sexually.

It formed us racially.

Pure White is a co-production of AccessMundi Media and the After Purity Project.

Episode 1 drops December 11.

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US for more information on this series and so much more. Axis Mundi. You're going to be here. Hello and welcome to It's in the Code. I'm your host. My name is Dan Miller. I'm

Professor of Religion and social thought at

Landmark College and this series is a part of the podcast Straight White American Jesus as

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