The fight for Asian American civil rights : liberal Protestant activism, 1900-1950

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From the early 1900s, liberal Protestants grafted social welfare work onto spiritual concerns on both sides of the Pacific. Their goal: to forge links between whites and Asians that countered anti-Asian discrimination in the United States. Their test: uprooting racial hatreds that, despite their eff...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Griffith, Sarah Marie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Asian Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Asian Americans > Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Race relations
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • "We must fight for the Lord and Japan": Christian internationalism in the Pacific
  • A splendid storehouse of facts: establishing the survey of race relations on the Pacific coast
  • Once I was an American: Asian North American resistance in the interwar period
  • A new Pacific community: debating equality in the interwar period
  • "The injustice of internment": expanding coalitions in the internment era
  • The legacies of a movement
  • Epilogue.

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