“A verry poor place for our doctrine”: Religion and Race in the 1853 Mormon Mission to Jamaica

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Christopher Cannon Jones
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Black Men ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
The United States ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
The Temple

ABSTRACT This article examines the first Mormon mission to Jamaica in January 1853. The missionaries, facing opposition from both black and white Jamaicans, returned to the United States after only a month on the island, having made only four converts. Latter-day Saints did not return to Jamaica for another 125 years. Drawing on the missionaries’ personal papers, church archives, local newspaper reports, and governmental records, I argue that the 1853 mission played a crucial role in shaping nineteenth-century Mormonism's racial theology, including the “temple and priesthood ban” that restricted priesthood ordination and temple worship for black men and women. While historians have rightly noted the role twentieth-century missions to regions of the African Diaspora played in ending the ban, studies of the racial restriction's early scope have been discussed in almost exclusively American contexts. The mission to Jamaica, precisely because of its failure, helped shape the ban's implementation and theological justifications. Failing to make any inroads, the elders concluded that both Jamaica and its inhabitants were cursed and not worthy of the missionaries’ time, which anticipated later decisions to prioritize preaching to whites and to scale back and ultimately abandon efforts to proselytize people of African descent.

Abstract 15: Trends in Atrial Fibrillation-related Cardiovascular Mortality Rates in The United States: 1999-2017

Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 141 (Suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshihiro Tanaka ◽  
Nilay Shah ◽  
Rod Passman ◽  
Philip Greenland ◽  
Sadiya Khan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
White Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Black And White

Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia in adults and the prevalence is increasing due to the aging of the population and the growing burden of vascular risk factors. Although deaths due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) death have dramatically decreased in recent years, trends in AF-related CVD death has not been previously investigated. Purpose: We sought to quantify trends in AF-related CVD death rates in the United States. Methods: AF-related CVD death was ascertained using the CDC WONDER online database. AF-related CVD deaths were identified by listing CVD (I00-I78) as underlying cause of death and AF (I48) as contributing cause of death among persons aged 35 to 84 years. We calculated age-adjusted mortality rates (AAMR) per 100,000 population, and examined trends over time estimating average annual percent change (AAPC) using Joinpoint Regression Program (National Cancer Institute). Subgroup analyses were performed to compare AAMRs by sex-race (black and white men and women) and across two age groups (younger: 35-64 years, older 65-84 years). Results: A total of 522,104 AF-related CVD deaths were identified between 1999 and 2017. AAMR increased from 16.0 to 22.2 per 100,000 from 1999 to 2017 with an acceleration following an inflection point in 2009. AAPC before 2009 was significantly lower than that after 2009 [0.4% (95% CI, 0.0 - 0.7) vs 3.5% (95% CI, 3.1 - 3.9), p < 0.001). The increase of AAMR was observed across black and white men and women overall and in both age groups (FIGURE), with a more pronounced increase in black men and white men. Black men had the highest AAMR among the younger decedents, whereas white men had the highest AAMR among the older decedents. Conclusion: This study revealed that death rate for AF-related CVD has increased over the last two decades and that there are greater black-white disparities in younger decedents (<65 years). Targeting equitable risk factor reduction that predisposes to AF and CVD mortality is needed to reduce observed health inequities.

scholarly journals Rosa Naday Garmendia: Artist Statement and Art Work

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 297-304
Author(s):  
Rosa Naday Garmedia
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Black Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Security Guards ◽  
Ongoing Project

A series of photographic images depicting the artwork of socially engaged, multidisciplinary artist, Rosa Naday Garmedia, as well as a statement supporting the background of the art. The images depict selected installation views of the "Rituals of Commemoration" at the Corcoran Gallery, an ongoing project started in 2014. This iteration of the Commemoration project presents the most named bricks, 469 of the 1,252 representing lives of black men and women killed by police or security guards across the United States between 1979 to date.

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 171-176
Author(s):  
Tyler Carrington
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
The United States ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Contemporary World

The epilogue, which opens by tracing the legacy of Frieda Kliem’s Berlin throughout the rest of the twentieth century, insists that we cannot understand this famous twilight of “old” Germany and its transition into “new” Germany unless we take seriously the tensions surrounding love, intimacy, and dating that play out in Love at Last Sight. It further contends that the modern world—epitomized by the modern metropolis—not only exacerbated some of the long-standing and inherent risks of love, but also created a whole new set of dilemmas with which men and women throughout Germany, Europe, and the United States continue to grapple as they pursue love using similarly radical methods and technologies (most notably, online dating). The story of the Berliners who negotiated these same tensions at the turn of the century, the epilogue concludes, is thus eminently relevant to and instructive for our own contemporary world.

scholarly journals Prevalence and Correlates of PrEP Awareness and Use Among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men and Women (MSMW) in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 2694-2705 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Reuel Friedman ◽  
Jordan M. Sang ◽  
Leigh A. Bukowski ◽  
Cristian J. Chandler ◽  
James E. Egan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Black Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
Prep Awareness

Gendered Paths to Enlightenment: The Intersection of Gender and Religion in Buddhist Temples in Mainland China and the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 232949652096818
Author(s):  
Di Di
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Temple

This study explores how religious adherents construct their ideas regarding gender in Buddhist faith communities. Two temples, one in China and the other in the United States, both affiliated with the same international Buddhist headquarters, are situated in national contexts that endorse different macro-level gender norms. While leaders of both temples teach similar religious gender norms—specifically, that gender is unimportant for spiritual advancement—adherents do articulate gender differences in other respects. Buddhists at the temple in China believe that men and women differ but should be treated equally, with neither holding dominance over the other; meanwhile, U.S. practitioners also believe that everyone should be treated equally irrespective of gender, but they view men and women as essentially the same. A close analysis reveals that Buddhists at both temples recognize the distinctions between their religious and societal macro-level gender norms and navigate between these norms when constructing their own understandings of gender. This study highlights the influence of national context on the relationship between gender and religion, thereby contributing to and deepening our understanding of the subject.

It's Still Slavery by Another Name

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Michael D. Yates
Keyword(s):  
Black Men ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Black People ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
White People ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Black And White

As the long history, right to the present day, of police and vigilante violence against black people has shown with great clarity, the racial chasm between black and white people in the United States lives on. A few black men and women have climbed into the 1 percent, and a sizable African-American middle class now exists. But by every measure of social well-being, black Americans fare much worse than their white counterparts. Just as for the economic, political, and social distance between capitalists and workers, so too is there a differential between black and white people, for these same interconnected components of daily life continue because of the way our system is structured.

Thinking with Catholicism, Empire, and History

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Katherine D. Moran
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Upper Midwest ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Origin Stories ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The U.S

This chapter begins with an overview of George Everett Adams's and Helen Taft's speeches, which they delivered as Protestants in a country that was increasingly home to a large and growing Catholic minority. It argues that Adams's and Taft's speeches were part of a much larger religious pattern in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the ongoing currents of anti-Catholicism in U.S. culture, many late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Protestants joined their Catholic compatriots in speaking with nostalgia and admiration about the figures and institutions of Roman Catholic exploration and evangelization. The chapter also describes how men and women celebrated idealized versions of Catholic imperial pasts as the United States grew into a global power. It traces Catholic origin stories that emerged in three different sites and circumstances: the upper Midwest, Southern California, and the U.S. colonial Philippines.

Abstract MP73: Years of Potential Life Lost Due to Premature Cardiometabolic Mortality in The United States, 1999-2017

Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 141 (Suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilay S Shah ◽  
Donald M Lloyd-jones ◽  
Kiarri N Kershaw ◽  
Mercedes R Carnethon ◽  
Sadiya S Khan
Keyword(s):  
Black Men ◽  
White Women ◽  
Age Of Onset ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cardiometabolic Health ◽  
Annual Percent Change ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Before And After

Introduction: Age of onset for heart disease (HD), cerebrovascular disease (CBD), and diabetes (DM) has shifted earlier, with increases in avoidable cardiometabolic deaths. We quantified total and trends in years of potential life lost (YPLL) before the age of 65 from HD, CBD, and DM, to describe population burden of premature preventable cardiometabolic mortality. Hypothesis: YPLL from premature cardiometabolic deaths in the U.S. have increased and are highest in black adults. Methods: Death certificates from the CDC’s Wide-Ranging Online Database for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) were used to quantify mean age at death and proportion of deaths that were premature (<65 years) from HD, CBD, and DM as underlying cause of death. We then calculated age standardized premature YPLL (before age 65) per 100,000 people and mean annual percent change (APC) in YPLL, overall and in black and white women and men, before and after the previously published inflection in cardiometabolic death rates in 2011. Results: Between 1999-2017, 19% of HD deaths, 14% of CBD deaths, and 27% of DM deaths were premature. Overall, premature YPLL from HD decreased between 1999-2011 from 512 to 416 per 100,000 (APC -1.7%/year, 95% CI [-2.0, -1.5]), then remained unchanged from 2011-2017. For CBD, premature YPLL decreased 1.8%/year (-2.2, -1.5) to 70 per 100,000 in 2011, but remained unchanged through 2017. Premature YPLL from DM remained unchanged at 71 per 100,000 from 1999-2011, then increased 2.5%/year (1.8, 3.1) to 81 per 100,000 in 2017. Premature YPLL were higher in black men and women compared with white men and women, respectively (FIGURE). Conclusions: Premature YPLL from cardiometabolic causes plateaued or increased after 2011. Disparities in YPLL have persisted in the past decade with nearly half of cardiometabolic deaths in black men occurring before age 65. Equitable promotion of cardiometabolic health early in the lifespan may reduce population, health system, and financial burden of premature cardiometabolic mortality.

Discursive constructions of race talk among Black men and women living in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (7) ◽  
pp. 1013-1031 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krystal M. Perkins ◽  
Michael Chan-Frazier ◽  
Yachinnea Roland
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Black Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Discursive Constructions

scholarly journals Sleep and cardiometabolic health by government-assisted rental housing status among Black and White men and women in the United States

Sleep Health ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 420-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Symielle A. Gaston ◽  
W. Braxton Jackson ◽  
David R. Williams ◽  
Chandra L. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
White Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cardiometabolic Health ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Housing Status ◽  
Black And White
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