American Heathens

Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California

by: Joshua Paddison

American Heathens
Author: Joshua Paddison

Publisher: Huntington Library Press,US

Series: Western Histories

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 19 June 2012

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ISBN: 0873282442 ISBN 13: 9780873282444

American Heathens by Joshua Paddison

In the 19th-century debate over whether the US should be an explicitly Christian nation, California emerged as a central battleground. The author 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. Top page

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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. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Huntington Library Press,US

City: California

Pages: 278

More info: height 229 mm width 163 mm weight 606 gr thickness 26 mm

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Age recommended: Professional and scholarly

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 305.8009794 Library of Congress Subject: California - History - 1850-1950

Departments: Miscellaneous items;

Record updated at: 15 May, 2013 time: 18:54


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