Special Episode: Pure White Ep. 1

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Axis Mundi Media is proud to introduce Pure White - A history podcast series that traces the relationships among sexual purity, White supremacy, and Christian nationalism from the 19th century to the present. What happens when you link national renewal to the sexual lives of teenagers? This is exactly what evangelical purity culture did in the 1990s. In this first episode, host Dr. Sara Moslener recounts the history and details of purity culture's advent, leaving us with an important question: If sexual purity is the way to restore the nation - what does "purity" mean when we go beyond individual sexual decisions to a vision for our nation? In the case of the United States, the answer is surprising: the national vision cultivated in purity culture has historical roots in White supremacy. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Subscribe to Pure White: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pure-white/id1718974286 To purchase Virgin Nation: https://massivebookshop.com/products/9780199987764 To Subscribe to Chew On This, A Newsletter from the After Purity Project: https://afterpurity.substack.com Axis Mundi Media: www.axismundi.us Homework for Episode Two: https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/jacobs.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pure White, a podcast about sexual purity and white supremacy.
0:08.0	I'm your host Sarah Mossler.
0:11.0	For 15 years, I've studied this thing we now call evangelical purity culture.
0:17.0	So we're going back to the times and places where sexual purity was a prominent tool for maintaining a social order
0:26.7	premised on racial inequality.
0:29.8	But the foundational concept of sexual purity in the United States has a deep and complicated
0:36.7	history that goes back well over 150 years.
0:42.3	Uncovering this history demonstrates how sexual purity was constructed as an exclusive category
0:49.4	for white women, providing them with protection and status, while denying the same to other women,
0:56.9	enslaved, immigrant, and other women of color.
1:01.4	In the United States, purity and impurity have always been racially coded.
1:07.1	To be white is to be free and pure. To not be white is to be suspect and impure.
1:14.0	Purity culture didn't just form us sexually.
1:16.5	It formed us racially.
1:19.9	Pure White is a co-production of Access Mundundi Media and the After Purity Project.
1:24.6	Episode 1 drops December 11.
1:27.1	Find it anywhere you get your podcast.
1:29.2	Hit subscribe now so you don't miss any of the action.
1:31.9	And check out Accessmundi.
1:33.2	US for more information on this series and so much more. Axis Mundi. Hey Brad.
1:55.0	Hey Sarah.
1:57.0	So I want to play you a sound from my podcast and you have to guess what it is and I'll give you a hint,
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