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Protestant missionaries, Asian immigrants, and ideologies of race in America, 1850-1924
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Protestant missionaries, Asian immigrants, and ideologies of race in America, 1850-1924

Author: Jennifer C Snow
Publisher: New York : Routledge, ©2007.
Series: Asian Americans.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jennifer C Snow
ISBN: 9780415955836 0415955831
OCLC Number: 71243884
Description: xx, 178 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The shape of difference in missionary discourse --
From homogeneity to diversity : missionary responses to scientific racism --
Missionaries and the Chinese exclusion act --
Missionaries and the exclusion of the Japanese --
Missionary discourse and United States vs. Bhagat Singh Thind.
Series Title: Asian Americans.
Responsibility: Jennifer C. Snow.
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"The strength of Snow's work lies in her delineation of the scientific racists' arguments against immigration... This slim volume demonstrates the importance of considering the 'losing' side in Read more...

 
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