Race, Religion, and Civil Rights

STEPHANIE HINNERSHITZ is an assistant professor of history at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia.

"An innovative contribution to Asian American studies and 'long civil rights movement' historiography … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (CHOICE) "Hinnershitz takes an innovative approach to the people whom Americans generally regarded as non-American other. This is a welcome innovation in the research on the civil rights movement." - Liping Bu (author of Making the World Like Us: Education, Cultural Expansion, and the American Century) "With increasing numbers of Asian international students on U.S. campuses, this timely study convincingly shows how such students have long been central to Asian American history and civil rights movements." - Anna Pegler-Gordon (author of In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy) "An engaging narrative that takes up the intersection of race, religion, and civil rights and that includes subjects and themes that often have been overlooked or not been taken into account comparatively." (American Historical Review) "Hinnershitz's work is timely and important to consider, especially given the current landscape of Asian international student populations on many of our college campuses and their subsequent developing identities as racialized bodies." (History of Education Quarterly) "Hinnershitz's study is...a welcome addition to the historiography of Asian American activism, emphasizing their place in the long and 'wide,' in Mark Brilliant's formulation, history of the Civil Rights Movement."   (Pacific Historical Review)

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1          “Western People Are Not All Angels”: Encountering Racism on the West Coast2          A Problem by Any Other Name: Christian Student Associations, the “Second-Generation Problem,” and West Coast Racism3          “We Ask Not for Mercy, but for Justice”: Filipino Students and the Battle for Labor and Civil Rights4          “A Sweet-and-Sour World”: The Second Sino-Japanese War, Christian Citizenship, and Equality5          Christian Citizenship and Japanese American Incarceration during World War II6          Christian Social Action in the Postwar EraConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex