Editing Zeniff (section)

=== Lamanite racialization ===
In ''Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism'', Peter Coviello uses Zeniff’s account to expand on ideas of Lamanite racialization in the Book of Mormon. Coviello states that Zeniff’s acknowledgement of Lamanite motivations "offers an account not of Lamanite wickedness but of Lamanite grievance: of a people precipitated into sustained warfare by a sense of usurpation, harm, and lasting injustice."{{sfn|Coviello|2019|p=145}} Coviello proposes that in Zeniff’s account, the Lamanites express their view of the Nephites as "persecutors who use the idea of bloodlines, of inherited sins, to authorize their depredations," which Coviello states is an insight into the Nephite's "racialization of righteousness."{{sfn|Coviello|2019|p=145}}