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

This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version ofChristian idealism against scientific racism missionaries developed a complextheology o... » 

This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version ofChristian idealism against scientific racism missionaries developed a complextheology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism andreached its final belated culmination in the liberal Protestant support of thecivil rights movements in the 1960s. «