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Almighty God Created the Races - 9780807833186

Un libro in lingua di Fay Botham edito da Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2009

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In this 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. 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 California's antimiscegenation statutes on the grounds of religious freedom) and the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (which declared legal bans on interracial marriage unconstitutional). Botham contends that the white southern Protestant notion that God "dispersed" the races, as opposed to the American Catholic emphasis on human unity and common origins, points to ways that religion influenced the course of litigation and illuminates the religious bases for Christian racist and antiracist movements.
Exploring a wide range of primary sources, including post-Civil War writings by Catholic and Protestant clerics, papal encyclicals, articles in newspapers and religious periodicals, and decisions in state supreme courts and the U.S. Supreme Court, Botham demonstrates the ways that religious beliefs and regional differences influenced antimiscegenation laws in the United States.

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