{"product_id":"anti-catholicism-in-arkansas-kenneth-c-barnes-9781682260166","title":"Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas: How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910-1960","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2017 Ragsdale Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A timely study that puts current issues--religious intolerance, immigration, the separation of church and state, race relations, and politics--in historical context. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The masthead of the \u003ci\u003eLiberator\u003c\/i\u003e, an anti-Catholic newspaper published in Magnolia, Arkansas, displayed from 1912 to 1915 an image of the Whore of Babylon. She was an immoral woman sitting on a seven-headed beast, holding a golden cup \"full of her abominations,\" and intended to represent the Catholic Church.\u003cp\u003ePropaganda of this type was common during a nationwide surge in antipathy to Catholicism in the early twentieth century. This hostility was especially intense in largely Protestant Arkansas, where for example a 1915 law required the inspection of convents to ensure that priests could not keep nuns as sexual slaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLater in the decade, anti-Catholic prejudice attached itself to the campaign against liquor, and when the United States went to war in 1917, suspicion arose against German speakers--most of whom, in Arkansas, were Roman Catholics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan portrayed Catholics as \"inauthentic\" Americans and claimed that the Roman church was trying to take over the country's public schools, institutions, and the government itself. In 1928 a Methodist senator from Arkansas, Joe T. Robinson, was chosen as the running mate to balance the ticket in the presidential campaign of Al Smith, a Catholic, which brought further attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough public expressions of anti-Catholicism eventually lessened, prejudice was once again visible with the 1960 presidential campaign, won by John F. Kennedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnti-Catholicism in Arkansas \u003c\/i\u003eillustrates how the dominant Protestant majority portrayed Catholics as a feared or despised \"other,\" a phenomenon that was particularly strong in Arkansas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kenneth C. Barnes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 168226016X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682260166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arkansas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2017","brand":"Kenneth C. Barnes","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43937223409919,"sku":"9781682260166","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4923b07d-3e99-49f8-a9a0-61cc6eb48c04.jpg?v=1681428826","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anti-catholicism-in-arkansas-kenneth-c-barnes-9781682260166","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}