Published last month, the research analyzed public accounts of Black Latter-day Saints and found they experienced positive spiritual joy, but also “racism and isolation.”
“Some people see my race rather than seeing me for who I am” — Participants find profound spiritual joy in the faith, along with heartbreaking “racism and isolation.”
Stanger-Weyland’s experience growing up in the church, serving a full-time mission and marrying in a Latter-day Saint temple has been a blessing to her life, she wrote in the June 2018 edition of the church’s“The assumption that I must be new to the church because I’m Black,” she wrote, “reinforces that some people see my race rather than seeing me for who I am.
With a small sample size, however, Soelberg said it is unclear whether most Black Latter-day Saints would fall into that category. She said it could be that Black members willing to share public accounts of private experiences would be more likely to be categorized like that. W.E.B. Du Bois coined the term "twoness" to describe how Black individuals have to navigate a white world while also keeping in touch with being Black in America.
A common theme in the excerpts from Black women was asserting themselves in spaces that lack Black representation, Rugh said, everything from paintings in temples to articles in church magazines. , a sociology professor at BYU. Wood, the third researcher on the project, wants to pursue more specific data like this.White researchers like himself should also be mindful about how they insert themselves into the conversation, Wood said. He learned how to step aside and let the affected members speak instead of making his own assumptions.
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