The Exodus of 1912: A Huddle of Pros and Cons—Mormons Twice Dispossessed

Stöver, Philip

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“…Their material privilege meant that they epitomised a lot of what the revolution opposed. 29 Mormons tried to remain neutral in the Mexican revolution, but violence and political upheaval forced them to flee on different occasions. In 1912, after the ousting of Porfirio Díaz, as part of the 'Mexico for Mexicans' campaign, leading generals of the revolution expelled the colonists.…”

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“…Those who stayed in the USA learned that leaving Mexico meant exchanging an elite status for positions of inferior status in their new congregations -'twice dispossessed', as one historian has called them. 31 The US occupation of Veracruz re-fuelled anti-American sentiment in 1914, and again Mormon colonists fled Mexico, recognising threats to their lives and properties. By the time of the Punitive Expedition, Mormon colonists in Chihuahua numbered only about two hundred, living in two colonies -Colonia Juárez and Colonia Dublán.…”

Section: Mormons and Anti-mormonismmentioning

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‘Access to Women’: Securing Mormon Whiteness in the US Army's Regulation of Commercial Sex in Chihuahua, 1916

Maddock¹

2022

Gender & History

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This article argues that Mormon colonists -once refugees who had sought freedom from persecution for their sexual practices -asserted a white middle-class respectability as they cooperated with the US Army and corresponded with officers on the management of the soldiers' sexual conduct. Their success depended heavily on shared understandings of the race and gender of the people involved. That is, they leveraged prevailing assumptions about Black soldiers' bodies as aggressive and in need of sex, about white Mormon women's bodies as vulnerable and about Mexican women's bodies as racially in-between and thus suitable for the sexual service-work of enlisted men, pliable and ready to be made 'accessible' to soldiers. John Pershing, when asked to explain his decision to build the brothel, justified his choice by saying he had all Black troops at the camp and that nearby Mormon colonists had complained of these Black men meeting women outside for sex. This article explains how, why, for whom and to what end Pershing's explanation worked.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Mormons and Anti-mormonismmentioning

confidence: 99%