Almighty God created the races
Subtitle: Christianity, interracial marriage, and American law
By: Fay Botham.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807833186
Subjects: Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History; Religion and law -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Catholic California : the historic junction of religion, region, and law in Perez v. Lippold; title: The historical origins of American laws on interracial sex and marriage : the role of religion and region; title: Church authority or states' rights? Protestant and Catholic theologies of marriage; title: Noah's sons and common origins in Adam and Eve : Protestant and Catholic theologies of race; title: States' rights and the southern white Protestant theology of race in antimiscegenation law and cases, 1867-1964; title: The southern lingua franca of race : Judge Leon M. Bazile and white Catholics.