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Ballots and Bibles - Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence (Hardcover, New)
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Ballots and Bibles - Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America
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By the mid-nineteenth century, Providence, Rhode Island, an early
industrial center, became a magnet for Catholic immigrants seeking
jobs. The city created as a haven for Protestant dissenters was
transformed by the arrival of Italian, Irish, and French-Canadian
workers. By 1905, more than half of its population was Catholic
Rhode Island was the first state in the nation to have a Catholic
majority. Civic leaders, for whom Protestantism was an essential
component of American identity, systematically sought to exclude
the city's Catholic immigrants from participation in public life,
most flagrantly by restricting voting rights. Through her account
of the newcomers' fight for political inclusion, Evelyn Savidge
Sterne offers a fresh perspective on the nationwide struggle to
define American identity at the turn of the twentieth century.In a
departure from standard histories of immigrants and workers in the
United States, Ballots and Bibles views religion as a critical tool
for new Americans seeking to influence public affairs. In
Providence, this book demonstrates, Catholics used their parishes
as political organizing spaces. Here they learned to be speakers
and leaders, eventually orchestrating a successful response to
Rhode Island's Americanization campaigns and claiming full
membership in the nation. The Catholic Church must, Sterne
concludes, be considered as powerful an engine for ethnic
working-class activism from the 1880s until the 1930s as the labor
union or the political machine."
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