Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law.By Fay Botham. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiii + 271 pp. $35.00 cloth.

摘要

Fay Botham’s book asserts that religion played a “significant role in Americannantimiscegenation cases” (xi) and that historians have given very little attentionnto this important role in their studies of American miscegenation cases or in thenhistory of interracial marriage more generally (5). Her cultural history “advancesnthe view that Christian beliefs about race and marriage exerted a powerful andnenduring ideological influence on antimiscegenation law and litigation and onnAmerican attitudes toward race, intermarriage, and segregation” (6). The morenspecific and interesting point that Botham makes about antimiscegenation cases