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082 0 4 _a277.3082
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aCurtis, Jesse
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Myth of Colorblind Christians :
_bEvangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era /
_cJesse Curtis.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
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520 _aReveals 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. These two stories are deeply connected. 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. 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 colorblindness powered the evangelical coalition to new heights of influence even as it kept Black evangelicals on the outside looking in. While Black evangelicals used the rhetoric of Christian unity to challenge racism, white evangelicals used the same language to urge their Black counterparts to stop demanding racial reforms, arguing that all were equal under Christ and Christians should not talk about race. Christian colorblindness not only sidestepped the need to dismantle the American religio-racial hierarchy, but became a primary defense for it, as white evangelicals portrayed movements for racial justice as threats to Christian unity. The push toward Christian colorblindness transformed American evangelicalism and the nation. Curtis argues that white evangelicals deployed Christian colorblindness not for antiracist purposes, but rather to protect new investments in whiteness. 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 yet continue to thrive today.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aCivil rights movements
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aEvangelicalism
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aRace relations
_xReligious aspects
_xChristianity.
650 7 _aRELIGION / Christianity / History.
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653 _aBill McCartney.
653 _aBilly Graham.
653 _aBlack Lives Matter.
653 _aBlack evangelicals.
653 _aBlack liberation theology.
653 _aBlack power.
653 _aC. Peter Wagner.
653 _aC. Rene Padilla.
653 _aChristian colorblindness.
653 _aChurch Growth Movement.
653 _aChurch segregation.
653 _aCivil Rights Movement.
653 _aClarence Hilliard.
653 _aColorblindness.
653 _aDonald McGavran.
653 _aDonald Trump.
653 _aEvangelical colleges.
653 _aEvangelicalism.
653 _aHigher education.
653 _aHoward Jones.
653 _aIndia.
653 _aIntegration.
653 _aJohn Perkins.
653 _aLausanne.
653 _aPhiladelphia.
653 _aPromise Keepers.
653 _aRacial reconciliation.
653 _aRacism.
653 _aRonald Sider.
653 _aSouthern Baptist Convention.
653 _aTom Skinner.
653 _aWhite evangelicals.
653 _aWhite flight.
653 _aWhite identity.
653 _aWhiteness.
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