The Myth of Colorblind Christians : : Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era / / Jesse Curtis.
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...
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Curtis, Jesse, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Myth of Colorblind Christians : Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era / Jesse Curtis. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. What Does It Mean to Be One in Christ? The Civil Rights Movement and the Origins of Christian Colorblindness -- 2. Creating the Colorblind Campus -- 3. Growing the Homogeneous Church -- 4. A Mission Field Next Door -- 5. Two Gospels on a Global Stage -- 6. The Elusive Turning Point: Colorblind Christians and “Racial Reconciliation” -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2024) Civil rights movements United States History 20th century. Evangelicalism United States History 20th century. Race relations Religious aspects Christianity. RELIGION / Christianity / History. bisacsh Bill McCartney. Billy Graham. Black Lives Matter. Black evangelicals. Black liberation theology. Black power. C. Peter Wagner. C. Rene Padilla. Christian colorblindness. Church Growth Movement. Church segregation. Civil Rights Movement. Clarence Hilliard. Colorblindness. Donald McGavran. Donald Trump. Evangelical colleges. Evangelicalism. Higher education. Howard Jones. India. Integration. John Perkins. Lausanne. Philadelphia. Promise Keepers. Racial reconciliation. Racism. Ronald Sider. Southern Baptist Convention. Tom Skinner. White evangelicals. White flight. White identity. Whiteness. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479809417.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479809417 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479809417/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. What Does It Mean to Be One in Christ? The Civil Rights Movement and the Origins of Christian Colorblindness -- 2. Creating the Colorblind Campus -- 3. Growing the Homogeneous Church -- 4. A Mission Field Next Door -- 5. Two Gospels on a Global Stage -- 6. The Elusive Turning Point: Colorblind Christians and “Racial Reconciliation” -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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