1st Edition

Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924

By Jennifer Snow Copyright 2007
    198 Pages
    by Routledge

    374 Pages
    by Routledge

    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