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White Too Long : The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones [Jones, Robert P.] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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"Drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience, Robert P. Jones delivers a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for white Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves and the nation. As the nation grapples with demographic changes and the legacy of racism in America, Christianity's role as a cornerstone of white supremacy has been largely overlooked. But white Christians - from evangelicals in the South to mainline Protestants in the Midwest and Catholics in the Northeast - have not just been complacent or complicit ; rather, as the dominant cultural power, they have constructed and sustained a project of protecting white supremacy and opposing black equality that has framed the entire American story. With his family's 1815 Bible in one hand and contemporary public opinion surveys by Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) in the other, Robert P. Jones delivers a groundbreaking analysis of the repressed history of the symbiotic relationship between Christianity and white supremacy. 'White Too Long' demonstrates how deeply racist attitudes have becom

Who reads White Too Long : The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity?

Author

Robert P. Jones [Jones, Robert P.]

Publisher

Simon et Schuster Paperbacks

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781982122867

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Religion, Christian

Rating

4.7 / 5 (1,417 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14