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

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 1982122862 ISBN13: 9781982122867 Release Date: July 2020 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Length: 320 Pages Weight: 1.15 lbs. Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1" 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 opposin