Jesuits and Race

Nathaniel Millett is an associate professor of history at Saint Louis University. He is the author of The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World. Charles H. Parker is a professor of history at Saint Louis University. His publications include Global Calvinism: Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800; Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400-1800; and Faith on the Margins: Catholics and Catholicism in the Dutch Golden Age.

“This benchmark collection of essays offers the first comprehensive exploration of the long history of Jesuit entanglements in racialized views and practices.”—Ulrike Strasser, author of State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Jesuits and Race from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries — Nathaniel Millett and Charles H. ParkerChapter One. “The Society of the World:” Antonio Possevino (1533–1611 and the Jesuit Debate over Purity of BloodEmanuele ColomboChapter Two. Eternal Blackness: Body and Soul in Jesuit Martiìn de Roa’s AfterlifeErin Kathleen RoweChapter Three. Jesuits and Unfree Labor in Early Modern East AsiaLiam Matthew BrockeyChapter Four. Jesuits and ‘Race’ in Early Modern Chile: Valdivia’s Letters to the King, 1604-1618Andrew ReddenChapter Five. How to be a Country Jesuit: Practices of Continence, Care, and Containment in a Racializing ReligiosityJ. Michelle MolinaChapter Six. “The Most Barbarous and Fierce Peoples in the New World”: Decoding the Jesuit Missionary Project in Colonial North MexicoSusan M. DeedsChapter Seven. The Memory of Slavery at Saint Louis UniversityNathaniel MillettChapter Eight. A Challenge to our Sincerity: American Jesuits Discover “The Negro”James M. O’TooleChapter Nine. Trial by Fire: Father George Dunne and Race Relations in Cold War Los AngelesSean Dempsey, S.J.EpilogueJohn T. McGreevyContributorsIndex