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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Fay Bothman and Sara M. Patterson, editors. Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 190. $40.00.
This collection of essays edited by Fay Bothman and Sara M. Patterson demonstrates the growing interest of historians concerning the effect race, religion, and region have on one another. The book is historiographically significant as it makes a strong argument that the U.S. West influenced views on race and religion in ways different than did the South, the Midwest, or New England.	1
Some of the essays make the case that religion influences the manner in which one racial group views another. In "Going against the Grain: Multiracialism and the Fate of the Social Gospel in 1920s Los Angeles," William Deverell and Mark Wild show how the religious viewpoints of predominantly white Protestant Angeleños produced the downfall of G. Bromley Oxman's Church of All Nations, as the church, geared to aiding the multiracial poor in Los Angeles, threatened the white-dominated racial structure. Likewise, Michael E. Engh, S.J., in "Religion, Immigrants, and Americanizers in Los Angeles, 1900–1925," argues that a similar core of white Protestant Angeleños withheld support from Mary Julia Workman, the Catholic head of Brownson Settlement House, a local settlement center targeting Japanese and Mexican immigrants. Workman's efforts to bring Americanizing programs to the downtrodden met with frustration and eventual defeat.	. . .

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