Editing Lamanites (section)

===Anti-Lamanite narrator bias===
Book of Mormon scholars have used various lenses to interpret how race is portrayed in the Book of Mormon, particularly in relation to the Lamanites. Throughout the book, Nephite narrators describe the Lamanites as a "wild", "ferocious", and "bloodthirsty people" who "loved murder".<ref>see {{lds|Enos|1|20}} and {{lds|Mosiah|10|12}} for "wild," "ferocious," and "bloodthirsty people" and see {{lds|Jarom|1|6}} for "loved murder", quoted in {{harvnb|Austin|2024|p=111}}</ref> As [[Grant Hardy]], Jared Hickman, Elizabeth Fenton, and [[Terryl Givens]] explain, the Book of Mormon's first-person narration means its content is couched in "limited, human perspectives".<ref>{{multiref|For scholarly interpretation and first-person accounts, see {{harvnb|Coviello|2019|pp=142–143}}.|For "limited, human perspectives", see {{Cite Q|Q123382112|p=15}}}}</ref> The Nephite narrators of the Book of Mormon had the power to "characterize their antagonists [the Lamanites] as they wished", Armand Mauss writes.<ref>{{harvnb|Mauss|2003|p=116}}; Mauss quoted in {{harvnb|Austin|2024|p=113}}</ref> Deidre Green, a professor of Mormon studies, suggests that the prophet [[Jacob (Book of Mormon prophet)|Jacob]] condemns the Nephites' racist attitudes towards the Lamanite people and "clarifies that righteousness is manifest through right intentions and actions, not physical appearance."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Green |first=Deidre Nicole |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OIw8zQEACAAJ |url-access=limited |via=[[Google Books]] |title=Jacob: A Brief Theological Introduction |date=2020 |isbn=978-0-8425-0011-1 |publisher=[[Neal A. Maxwell Institute]] at [[Brigham Young University]]|pages=47, 77}}</ref> [[Michael Austin (writer)|Michael Austin]] argues that Jacob's warning to the Nephite people concerning their prejudice against the Lamanites is one of the book's attempts to combat the "anti-Lamanite" biases presented by the individual narrators. Austin further supports Max Perry Mueller's assertion that the narrative of the Book of Mormon does not support anti-Lamanite prejudices, using the story of [[Samuel the Lamanite]] as an example of criticism in the book's narrative of Nephite tendencies to "link skin color to righteousness".<ref>{{harvnb|Austin|2024|pp=109–112}} draws from ideas in {{Cite book |last=Mueller |first=Max Perry |title=Race and the Making of the Mormon People |year=2017 |publisher=[[University of North Carolina Press]] |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip&db=e025xna&AN=1571938&site=ehost-live&scope=site |url-access=registration |isbn=978-1-4696-3376-3 |page=50}}</ref>