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The Myth of Colorblind Christians - Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era (Paperback)
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The Myth of Colorblind Christians - Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era (Paperback)
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Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism
and excluded Black evangelicals In the decades after the civil
rights movement, white Americans turned to an ideology of
colorblindness. Personal kindness, not systemic reform, seemed to
be the way to solve racial problems. In those same decades, a
religious movement known as evangelicalism captured the nation's
attention and became a powerful political force. In The Myth of
Colorblind Christians, Jesse Curtis shows how white evangelicals'
efforts to grow their own institutions created an evangelical form
of whiteness, infusing the politics of colorblindness with sacred
fervor. Curtis argues that white evangelicals deployed a Christian
brand of colorblindness to protect new investments in whiteness.
While black evangelicals used the rhetoric of Christian unity to
challenge racism, white evangelicals repurposed this language to
silence their black counterparts and retain power, arguing that all
were equal in Christ and that Christians should not talk about
race. As white evangelicals portrayed movements for racial justice
as threats to Christian unity and presented their own racial
commitments as fidelity to the gospel, they made Christian
colorblindness into a key pillar of America's religio-racial
hierarchy. In the process, they anchored their own identities and
shaped the very meaning of whiteness in American society. At once
compelling and timely, The Myth of Colorblind Christians exposes
how white evangelical communities avoided antiracist action and
continue to thrive today.
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