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American Heathens

American Heathens

Paddison, Joshua

Hardcover

Series: Western Histories

General ChristianityGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesRegional: West

ISBN10: 0520289056
ISBN13: 9780520289055
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Jun 1 2012
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
In the 19th-century debate over whether the United States should be an explicitly Christian nation, California emerged as a central battleground. Racial groups that were perceived as godless and uncivilized were excluded from suffrage, and evangelism among Indians and the Chinese was seen as a politically incendiary act. Joshua Paddison sheds light on Reconstruction's impact on Indians and Asian Americans by illustrating how marginalized groups fought for a political voice, refuting racist assumptions with their lives, words, and faith. Reconstruction, he argues, was not merely a remaking of the South, but rather a multiracial and multiregional process of reimagining the nation.

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