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Almighty God created the races : Christianity, interracial marriage, & American law /

Botham argues that divergent Catholic and Protestant theologies of marriage and race, reinforced by regional differences between the West and the South, shaped the two pivotal cases that frame this volume, the 1948 California Supreme Court case of Perez v. Lippold (which successfully challenged Cali...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Botham, Fay, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Catholic California : the historic junction of religion, region, and law in Perez v. Lippold
  • The historical origins of American laws on interracial sex and marriage : the role of religion and region
  • Church authority or states' rights? Protestant and Catholic theologies of marriage
  • Noah's sons and common origins in Adam and Eve : Protestant and Catholic theologies of race
  • States' rights and the southern White Protestant theology of race in antimiscegenation law and cases, 1867-1964
  • The southern lingua franca of race : Judge Leon M. Bazile and White Catholics.