 | Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924 Subjects: Area Studies; Humanities; Social Sciences; American Studies; Religion; Asian Studies; History; Sociology & Social Policy; Asian Studies (General); American History; Religious History; Race & Ethnic Studies; 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 |
