Kathryn Gin Lum

Kathryn Gin Lum

1 book

About the Author

Kathryn Gin Lum is a historian whose scholarship explores the intersections of religion, race, and American history. Her work examines how ideas about faith, identity, belonging, and otherness have shaped the nation’s institutions and public life, bringing careful historical research to questions that remain deeply relevant today. She is the author of Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, a wide-ranging study of the category of the “heathen” and its significance in American culture. Gin Lum’s writing connects intellectual history with social and cultural analysis, offering fresh perspectives on the American past.

Writing style
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