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the Myth of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals and White Supremacy Civil Rights Era

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the Myth of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals and White Supremacy Civil Rights Era
the Myth of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals and White Supremacy Civil Rights Era

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the Myth of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals and White Supremacy Civil Rights Era

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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 , 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, exposes how white evangelical communities avoided antiracist action and continue to thrive today.

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