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k930bv75p8f	Philipp Gollner	Good White Christians: How Religion Created Race and Ethnic Privilege for Immigrants in America	1904		.txt	text/plain	363	10	27	This dissertation's implications extend to the present: despite the contributions of their busy, world-bettering activism to the vitality of religious life in America, the immigrant religious groups I am interested in probably lost what could be a considerable gift to a culture still fraught with racial tensions: the instinct of ethnoreligious minorities that declined to exploit the advantages of their skin pigmentation, but opted instead for a wise provincialism – a position on the sidelines of dominant culture. This dissertation demonstrates that various European immigrant religious groups harnessed the cultural capital and coercive power of white Protestantism by adopting a posture of restless cultural activism and fervent missionary zeal, as well as a view of ethnic boundaries as harmful to proper religion.	cache/k930bv75p8f.txt	txt/k930bv75p8f.txt