White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
by Robert P. Jones
View on GoodreadsPRRI founder Robert P. Jones's data-driven argument that white American Christianity — Protestant, Catholic, and evangelical — is not a counterweight to white supremacy but a primary historical and contemporary vehicle for it.
Core ideas
- The polling is stark: white Christian Americans hold racist attitudes at measurably higher rates than white non-Christian Americans, across denominations, and the gap is larger than most adjacent variables predict.
- The historical case: the major American denominations split over slavery and emerged with theologies that accommodated it; the accommodations were never repudiated, only quieted.
- The book's "racism index" makes the structural claim testable rather than rhetorical — readers can see the data that produces the argument.
Published2020
Pages306
ISBN9781982122867
ReadSep 2023
