White
Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
by Robert P. Jones
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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 become embedded in the DNA of
white Christian identity over time and calls for an honest reckoning with a
complicated, painful, and even shameful past. Jones challenges white Christians
to acknowledge that public apologies are not enough—accepting responsibility
for the past requires work toward repair in the present.
White
Too Long is not an appeal to altruism. Drawing on lessons gleaned from case
studies of communities beginning to face these challenges, Jones argues that
contemporary white Christians must confront these unsettling truths because
this is the only way to salvage the integrity of their faith and their own
identities. More broadly, it is no exaggeration to say that not just the future
of white Christianity but the outcome of the American experiment is at stake.
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