| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600–2000. By Colin Kidd. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. viii, 309 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-521-79324-7. Paper, $27.99, ISBN 978-0-521-79729-0.)

The role of Christianity in defining racial identities and ideologies in Western culture since the early modern period has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention during the last forty years. Students of American history are most likely to be familiar with works that have probed the role of religion in the rise of American racial slavery, Euro-American attitudes toward native America, the defense of slavery in the nineteenth century and of Jim Crow in the twentieth. No one, however, has surveyed the tangled intellectual connections between Protestant Christianity and race on both sides of the Anglophone Atlantic from the early modern period to the present as expansively as Colin Kidd does in this volume.

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