Protestant Missionaries Asian Immigrants and Ideologies of Race in America 1850–1924

<p>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</p> <p>Introduction. The Shape of Difference in Missionary Discourse. Missionaries and the Chinese Exclusion Act. Missionaries and the Exclusion of the Japanese. United States vs. Bhagat Singh Thind. From Homogeneity to Diversity: Missionary Responses to Scientific Racism. Conclusion</p>