Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850 1924 |
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| Author:
| Snow, Jennifer |
| Series title: | Studies in Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, Histo Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-281-06407-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2006 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $136.00 |
Book Description:
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This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant support of the civil rights movements in the 1960s
This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant support of the civil rights movements in the 1960s