PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES, ASIAN IMMIGRANTS, AND IDEOLOGIES OF RACE IN AMERICA, 1850-1924 (Studies in Asian Americans)
โ Scribed by Jennifer Snow
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 199
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
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
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