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Powerfully tells the story of how white evangelicals in a post-civil-rights era fashioned an allegedly colorblind evangelicalism 'in which investments in whiteness continued in the name of spreading the gospel.' Curtis tells us not so much about white evangelicals familiar from other histories, as about evangelical whiteness, a distinction that makes all the difference in this original and important work. -- Paul Harvey, Distinguished Professor, Presidential Teaching Scholar, University of Colorado This book shows how platitudes about equality and not seeing racial differences actually perpetuated the segregated and unequal status quo in many white evangelical churches, colleges, and institutions. It is vital reading for understanding just how salient race remains in some Christian circles. This is the book on the history of white evangelicalism I have been waiting for. -- Jemar Tisby, New York Times-bestselling author of The Color of Compromise and How to Fight Racism Religious history at its best. An immensely clarifying book, it should be required reading for all who seek to understand white evangelicals' fraught engagement with race over the past half century. -- Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Powerfully tells the story of how white evangelicals in a post-civil-rights era fashioned an allegedly colorblind evangelicalism 'in which investments in whiteness continued in the name of spreading the gospel.' Curtis tells us not so much about white evangelicals familiar from other histories, as about evangelical whiteness, a distinction that makes all the difference in this original and important work.--Paul Harvey, Distinguished Professor, Presidential Teaching Scholar, University of Colorado Religious history at its best. An immensely clarifying book, it should be required reading for all who seek to understand white evangelicals' fraught engagement with race over the past half century.--Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation This book shows how platitudes about equality and not seeing racial differences actually perpetuated the segregated and unequal status quo in many white evangelical churches, colleges, and institutions. It is vital reading for understanding just how salient race remains in some Christian circles. This is the book on the history of white evangelicalism I have been waiting for.--Jemar Tisby, New York Times-bestselling author of The Color of Compromise and How to Fight Racism

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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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