The Myth of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era
by Jesse Curtis
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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. In 'The Myth of Colorblind Christians', Jesse Curtis shows how white evangelicals' efforts to grow their own institutions created an evangelical form of whiteness, show more 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. show lessTags
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Jesse Curtis is Assistant Professor of History at Valparaiso University. His work has appeared in the Journal of American Studies, History Memory, and Religion and American Culture.
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- 270.8 — Religion History of Christianity History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity Modern; Rationalistic (1789-)
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- BR1642 .U6 .C87 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christianity Christianity
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