Almighty God created the races : Christianity, interracial marriage, and American law / Fay Botham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Botham, Fay, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interracial marriage--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Interracial marriage.

Religion and law--United States--History.

Religion and law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Summary:

In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United States, Fay Botham argues that religion--specifically, Protestant and Catholic beliefs about marriage and race--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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

[1] Catholic California: The Historic Junction of Religion, Region, and Law in Perez v. Lippold (1948)

[2] The Historical Origins of American Laws on Interracial Sex and Marriage: The Role of Religion and Region

[3] Church Authority or States' Rights?: Protestant and Catholic Theologies of Marriage

[4] Noah's Sons and Common Origins in Adam and Eve: Protestant and Catholic Theologies of Race

[5] States' Rights and the Southern White Protestant Theology of Race in Antimiscegenation Laws and Cases, 1867-1964

[6] The Southern Lingua Franca of Race: Judge Leon M. Bazile and White Catholics

Epilogue: A Postmodernist's Reflections on History and Knowledge

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469604602

1469604604

OCLC:

593295715