Faith and Race in American Political Life

Contents

Contents Introduction: Intersecting Race and Religion 1 Foundations Religion, Race, and the American Constitutional Order 33 Eric Michael Mazur Quakerism and Racialism in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Politics 56 Carlos Figueroa Race, National Identity, and the Changing Circumstances of Jewish Immigrants in the United States 80 Susan M. Gordon What Would Robert E. Lee Do? Race, Religion, and the Debate over the Confederate Battle Flag in the American South 103 Gerald R. Webster and Jonathan I. Leib Acting Out The Black and White of Moral Values: How Attending to Race Challenges the Mythology of the Relationship between Religiosity and Political Attitudes and Behavior 127 Robert P. Jones and Robert D. Francis Latino Religion and Its Political Consequences: Exploring National and Local Trends 149 Jessica Hamar Martínez, Edwin I. Hernández, and Milagros Peña vi Contents The Stranger among Us: The Christian Right and Immigration 170 Robin Dale Jacobson Possibilties and Limits Political Advocacy through Religious Organization? The Evolving Role of the Nation of Islam 189 Catherine Paden A Demanding Conversation: The Black Manifesto in the Mennonite Church, 1969–1974 207 Tobin Miller Shearer Religion and Race: South Asians in the Post-9/11 United States 231 Sangay Mishra Ambivalent Miracles: The Possibilities and Limits of Evangelical Racial Reconciliation Politics 249 Nancy D. Wadsworth Racial Justice in the Protestant Mainline: Liberalism and Its Limits 275 Antony W. Alumkal Notes on Contributors 299 Index 303 Faith and Race in American Political Life ...