Race, nation, and religion in the Americas / edited by Henry Goldschmidt and Elizabeth McAlister.

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Other Authors: Goldschmidt, Henry, McAlister, Elizabeth A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Race and religion on the periphery: disappointment and missionization in the Spanish Floridas, 1566-1763 / Daniel Murphree
  • The Jew in the Haitian imagination: a popular history of anti-Judaism and proto-racism / Elizabeth McAlister
  • A great racial commission: religion and the construction of white America / Daniel B. Lee
  • The Catholic Afro mass and the dance of eurocentrism in Brazil / John Burdick
  • "Marked in body, mind and spirit": home missionaries and the remaking of race and nation / Derek Chang
  • "In search of souls, in search of Indians": religion and the "Indian problem" in northern Mexico / Julia Cummings O'Hara
  • Catholics, Creoles and the redefinition of race in New Orleans / James B. Bennett
  • Beyond the binary: revisiting Father Divine, Daddy Grace, and their ministries / Danielle Brune Sigler
  • Legislating "civilization" in postrevolutionary Haiti / Kate Ramsey
  • The civilization of white men: the race of the Hindu in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind / Jennifer Snow
  • The House of Saint Benedict, the House of Father John: Umbanda aesthetics and a politics of the senses / Lindsay Hale
  • Projecting Blackness: African-American religion in the Hollywood imagination / Judith Weisenfeld.