作者: Fay Botham
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摘要: This book shows how religion shaped legal limits on whom Americans could love and marry. In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage its regulation in the United States, Fay Botham argues that - specifically, Protestant Catholic beliefs about race had a significant effect decisions concerning miscegenation century following Civil War. divergent theologies race, reinforced by regional differences between West South, two pivotal cases frame volume, 1948 California Supreme Court case Perez v. Lippold (which successfully challenged California's antimiscegenation statutes grounds religious freedom) 1967 U.S. Loving Virginia declared bans unconstitutional). contends white southern notion God 'dispersed' races, as opposed to American emphasis human unity common origins, points ways influenced course litigation illuminates bases for Christian racist antiracist movements.