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04079aam a2200493 i 4500 001 24BA733AC06F11EC8BCEBD203FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220420010009 008 210126s2021 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021003106 020 $a 1479809381 020 $a 9781479809387 020 $a 1479809373 020 $a 9781479809370 035 $a (OCoLC)1238130469 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d SLV $d UKMGB $d YDX $d YUS $d LNT $d IHT $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a BR1642.U6 $b C87 2021 082 00 $a 270.8/2 $2 23 100 1 $a Curtis, Jesse, $e author. 245 14 $a The myth of colorblind Christians : $b evangelicals and White supremacy in the Civil Rights Era / $c Jesse Curtis. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 291 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a What does it mean to be one in Christ?: the Civil Rights Movement and the origins of Christian colorblindness -- Creating the colorblind campus-- Growing the homogeneous church -- A mission field next door -- Two gospels on a global stage -- The elusive turning point: colorblind Christians and "racial reconciliation". 520 $a "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 nationâs attention and became a powerful political force. In The Myth of Colorblind Christians, Jesse Curtis shows how white evangelicalsâ 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 Americaâs 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.This book explores the history of Black and white evangelical encounters in the second half of the twentieth century and shows how white evangelicals used Christian colorblindness, a theology of race emphasizing unity in Christ, to adapt to the civil rights movement while creating an evangelical form of whiteness"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Evangelicalism $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Race relations $x Christianity. $x Christianity. 650 0 $a Civil rights movements $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 6 $a EÌvangeÌlisme $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire $y 20e sieÌcle. 650 6 $a Relations raciales $x Christianisme. $x Christianisme. 650 6 $a Mouvements des droits de l'homme $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire $y 20e sieÌcle. 650 7 $a Civil rights movements. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862708 650 7 $a Evangelicalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00917002 650 7 $a Race relations $x Christianity. $x Christianity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086528 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781479809417 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20220420010236.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=24BA733AC06F11EC8BCEBD203FECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search