19th century american history
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american ethnic relations
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chinese american
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christianity in america
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evangelism in 19th century america
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race and discrimination
race relations in the american west
racial discrimination in 19th century
racial discrimination in california
reconstructions impact on asian americans
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- ISBN 9780520289055
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2012
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
Joshua Paddison is an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow in the American Studies Program and the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University.
