The Myth of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era Curtis Jesse
The Myth of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era Curtis Jesse Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black…
Specifikacia The Myth of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era Curtis Jesse
The Myth of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era Curtis Jesse
Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicalsIn the decades after the civil rights movement, white Americans turned to an ideology of colorblindness. In those same decades, a religious movement known as evangelicalism captured the nation's attention and became a powerful political force. Personal kindness, not systemic reform, seemed to be the way to solve racial problems.
In The Myth of Colorblind Christians, Jesse Curtis shows how white evangelicals' efforts to grow their own institutions created an evangelical form of whiteness and infused the politics of colorblindness with sacred fervor. These two stories are deeply connected. A church sanctuary, not a Republican Party meeting, proved to be the most influential site of evangelical activism in the second half of the twentieth century.Christian