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Almighty God created the races : Christianity, interracial marriage, & American law / Fay Botham.
Botham, Fay, 1968- author.
2009
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Author
Botham, Fay, 1968- author.
Title
Almighty God created the races : Christianity, interracial marriage, & American law / Fay Botham.
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
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[Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Company, [2016]
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1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages).
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Summary
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. --from publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-261) and index.
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Description based on PDF title page, viewed July 8, 2016.
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Religion and the law.
UNC Press law publications.
Civil rights and social justice.
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Original 9780807833186 (DLC) 2009024330
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Catholic California : the historic junction of religion, region, and law in Perez v. Lippold (1948)
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
Epilogue : a postmodernist's reflections on history and knowledge.

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