Pure White

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History Religion & Spirituality Sexuality Christianity

What's Pure White about?

A podcast about the White supremacist origins of evangelical purity culture with historian Dr. Sara Moslener.

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Pure White episodes:

01.15.2024
Ep. 8: The Myths and Martyrs of White Christian Nationalism
In this final episode of Pure White analyses how myths of white women’s innocence are deployed to demonstrate national innocence. The events of January 6, 2020 included several white women who willfully disobeyed the law. When arrested, many claimed innocence...
01.08.2024
Episode 7: Purity Culture and Welfare Reform
This episode examines how the True Love Waits and the Southern Baptist church influenced Clinton’s 1996 welfare reform bill with an amendment that created funding for abstinence-only education. This pairing demonstrates how myths about sexual purity deeply impact how the...
01.01.2024
Episode 6: True Love Waits and Sexual Accountability
This episode focuses on the organization True Love Waits and its founding as a highly ambitious campaign to transform the diversity of sexual cultures, expressions, and ethics in the US into a singular ethic based on Christian principles. While doing...
12.22.2023
Episode 5: Myths of Sexual Danger
Emmett Till. Lionel Richie. The Atlanta Massacre. This episode looks at how the legacy of lynching remains active in the promotion of myths of sexual danger which even today promote white women’s sexual purity and racial innocence. It examines...
12.18.2023
Episode 4: White Women and the Lynching Myth
This episode is named after an especially violent time in US history immediately following Reconstruction in the US South. Frequent racial-terror lynchings were justified by what journalist Ida B. Wells called the lynching myth. The myth was rooted in two...
12.18.2023
Episode 3: True Womanhood
First coined by US gender historian Barbara Welter, the cult of true womanhood is a concept that describes Victorian gender ideologies of the 19th century cultural elite. An analysis of these ideals reveals efforts by white Protestants to create a...
12.11.2023
Episode 2: Purity is for the Free
What can an enslaved woman's memoir teach us about the history of purity culture and White supremacy? The history of sexual purity is deeply intertwined with the history of race in the US. Specifically, it tells us a great deal about...
12.11.2023
Episode 1: Prelude to a Reckoning
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...
11.29.2023
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What's Pure White about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Pure White episodes:

Ep. 8: The Myths and Martyrs of White Christian Nationalism

Episode 7: Purity Culture and Welfare Reform

Episode 6: True Love Waits and Sexual Accountability

Episode 5: Myths of Sexual Danger

Episode 4: White Women and the Lynching Myth

Episode 3: True Womanhood

Episode 2: Purity is for the Free

Episode 1: Prelude to a Reckoning

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