White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones

White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

by Robert P. Jones

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Theology & Faith

Robert P. Jones's argument is that white American Christians didn't just tolerate racism; they built and defended white dominance, and the link survives today. Raised Southern Baptist in Macon, Georgia, the PRRI founder sets his family's 1815 Bible beside survey data and asks you for repair, not apology.

Core ideas
  • In the numbers: PRRI data link racist attitudes to white Christian identity in every white Christian subgroup, among frequent and infrequent churchgoers alike.
  • Not only the South: Methodists, Episcopalians and Catholics resisted Black enfranchisement after the Civil War too, and Midwestern mainline Protestants and Northeastern Catholics get the same scrutiny.
  • Facing the history: Case studies, including white and Black Baptist churches in Macon, follow communities confronting this past, with James Baldwin on the white problem.
Published2020
Pages306
ISBN9781982122867
ReadSep 2023

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