Wednesday, July 21, 2021

James B. Allen on the Indian Student Placement Program

Benjamin Park, one of the most over-rated (and arrogant) individuals within the realm of "Mormon Studies" today has posted a "tiktok" video on the Indian Student Placement Program:


Student Placement Program


I will give some credit to Park: he is an expert in being condescending.


To read an actually good and accurate history of the Indian Student Placement Program, see the essay by James B. Allen, "The Rise and Decline of the LDS Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-1996," in Mormons, Scripture, and the Ancient World (FARMS, 1998).