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johnirving[Editor's note: The following is a reprint of our 2005 interview with John Irving, whose new novel, Last Night in Twisted River, has just come out... Continue »
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    Last Night in Twisted River

    John Irving

Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850-1924 (Studies in Asian Americans)

by Jennifer Snow

Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850-1924 (Studies in Asian Americans) Cover

ISBN13: 9780415955836
ISBN10: 0415955831
Condition: Standard
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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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Product Details

ISBN:
9780415955836
Author:
Snow, Jennifer
Publisher:
Routledge
Subject:
Christianity - History - Protestant
Subject:
Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies
Subject:
Christian Ministry - Missions
Subject:
Religion
Subject:
Christianity
Subject:
Missionaries
Subject:
United States Church history.
Series:
Studies in Asian Americans
Publication Date:
December 2006
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
178
Dimensions:
9.30x6.26x.68 in. .87 lbs.
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