American heathens : religion, race, and reconstruction in California by Paddison, Joshua, 1974- instant download

American heathens : religion, race, and reconstruction in California by Paddison, Joshua, 1974- instant download

267 pages : 24 cm, This book examines the nineteenth-century debate over whether the United States should be a strictly Christian nation and how that affected other racial groups such as the Indians and Asian Americans. The author argues that reconstruction was not merely a remaking of the South, but a multiracial and multiregional process of reimagining the nation, Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index, A new vision of citizenship, 1861/1870 -- Of one blood, 1870/1876 -- The politics of Chinese evangelism -- The place of California Indians -- Anti-Catholicism and the limits of Protestant consensus -- Fly from evil, 1877/1887 -- The fracturing of Protestant California -- California and the consolidation of white Christian nationalism