American Heathens(English, Hardcover, Paddison Joshua)

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American Heathens(English, Hardcover, Paddison Joshua) is written by Paddison Joshua and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520289056 (ISBN 10) and 9780520289055 (ISBN 13).

In the 19th-century debate over whether the United States should be an explicitly Christian nation, California emerged as a central battleground. Racial groups that were perceived as godless and uncivilized were excluded from suffrage, and evangelism among Indians and the Chinese was seen as a politically incendiary act. Joshua Paddison sheds light on Reconstruction's impact on Indians and Asian Americans by illustrating how marginalized groups fought for a political voice, refuting racist assumptions with their lives, words, and faith. Reconstruction, he argues, was not merely a remaking of the South, but rather a multiracial and multiregional process of reimagining the nation.