Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924
Author | : Jennifer Snow |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2006-12-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781135914493 |
ISBN-13 | : 1135914494 |
Rating | : 4/5 (494 Downloads) |
Download or read book Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924 written by Jennifer Snow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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