Almighty God Created the Races
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Almighty God Created the Races

Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Almighty God Created the Races

Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law

About this book

In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United States, Fay Botham argues that religion ā€” specifically, Protestant and Catholic beliefs about marriage and race ā€” had a significant effect on legal decisions concerning miscegenation and marriage in the century following the Civil War. She contends that the white southern Protestant notion that God "dispersed" the races and the American Catholic emphasis on human unity and common origins point to ways that religion influenced the course of litigation and illuminate the religious bases for Christian racist and antiracist movements.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Almighty God Created the Races
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. [1] Catholic California: The Historic Junction of Religion, Region, and Law in Perez v. Lippold (1948)
  9. [2] The Historical Origins of American Laws on Interracial Sex and Marriage: The Role of Religion and Region
  10. [3] Church Authority or Statesā€™ Rights?: Protestant and Catholic Theologies of Marriage
  11. [4] Noahā€™s Sons and Common Origins in Adam and Eve: Protestant and Catholic Theologies of Race
  12. [5] Statesā€™ Rights and the Southern White Protestant Theology of Race in Antimiscegenation Laws and Cases, 1867ā€“1964
  13. [6] The Southern Lingua Franca of Race: Judge Leon M. Bazile and White Catholics
  14. Epilogue: A Postmodernistā€™s Reflections on History and Knowledge
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index