Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century

by Derek Chang

Book Overview

In America after the Civil War, the emancipation of four million slaves and the explosion of Chinese immigration fundamentally challenged traditional ideas about who belonged in the national polity. As Americans struggled to redefine citizenship in the United States, the "Negro Problem" and the "Chinese Question" dominated the debate.

During this turbulent period, which witnessed the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812242181
• ISBN13: 9780812242188
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"