A higher mission. The careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston in Central Africa. By Kimberly D. Hill. (New Directions in Southern History.) Pp. xii + 225 incl. 10 figs and 1 map. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 2020. $60. 978 0 8131 7891 0

• Autor: Wild-Wood, Emma
• Assuntos: Education ; Employment ; Missionaries ; Pedagogy ; Reviews ; Segregation
• É parte de: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2022, Vol.73 (1), p.211-213
• Descrição: Hill's examination of the married couple, Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston, identifies the ways in which their experience of the missionary role in Congo and in the USA was influenced by racialised policies and assumptions both in the Belgian colonial regime and, most particularly, in the American Presbyterian Congo Mission (APCM) and the southern states which supported the mission. The book addresses the segregated home and educational background of the Edmistons in the USA and the decisions of the APCM which retarded the Edmistons’ mission work as much as it examines their missionary work in the Congo. The book is part of a University Press of Kentucky series, New Directions in Southern History, and Hill understands the history of education and segregation in the southern US well.
  
• Editor: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
  
• Idioma: Inglês