1st Edition
Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924
By Jennifer Snow
Copyright 2007
198 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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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
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Shape of Difference in Missionary Discourse
From Homogeneity to Diversity: Missionary Responses to Scientific Racism
Missionaries and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Missionaries and the Exclusion of the Japanese
Missionary Discourse and United States vs. Bhagat Singh Thind
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Jennifer Snow
"The strength of Snow's work lies in her delineation of the scientific racists' arguments against immigration... This slim volume demonstrates the importance of considering the 'losing' side in historical conflicts." -- The Journal of American History