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Author Blum, Edward J., author.

Title The color of Christ : the Son of God & the saga of race in America / Edward J. Blum, Paul Harvey
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: The holy face of race -- I. Born across the sea -- When Christ crossed the Atlantic -- Revolutionary visions in colonial confines -- From light to white in the early republic -- II. Crucified and resurrected -- Body battles in antebellum America -- Christ in the camps -- Nordic and nativist in an age of imperialism -- III. Ascended and still ascending -- The great commission in the Great Depression -- Civil rights and the coloring of Christ -- A deity in the digital age -- Epilogue: Jesus jokes
Summary "How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions--from witch hunts to web pages, Harlem to Hollywood, slave cabins to South Park, Mormon revelations to Indian reservations--to show how Americans remade the Son of God visually time and again into a sacred symbol of their greatest aspirations, deepest terrors, and mightiest strivings for racial power and justice. The Color of Christ uncovers how, in a country founded by Puritans who destroyed depictions of Jesus, Americans came to believe in the whiteness of Christ. Some envisioned a white Christ who would sanctify the exploitation of Native Americans and African Americans and bless imperial expansion. Many others gazed at a messiah, not necessarily white, who was willing and able to confront white supremacy. The color of Christ still symbolizes America's most combustible divisions, revealing the power and malleability of race and religion from colonial times to the presidency of Barack Obama"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed January 30, 2018)
Subject Jesus Christ -- Person and offices.
Jesus Christ -- Black interpretations.
SUBJECT Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ fast
Jesus Christus. gnd
Jesus Christ. sears
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd
Subject Racism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Racism -- United States
African Americans -- Religion.
Indians of North America -- Religion.
Religion and culture -- United States
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Christology.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
African Americans -- Religion
Black interpretations of sacred works
Christology
Indians of North America -- Religion
Racism
Racism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Religion and culture
Hautfarbe
Rassismus
Rasism -- religiösa aspekter.
Kristendom.
Afro-amerikaner.
Indianer.
Racism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Racism -- United States.
African Americans -- Religion.
Native Americans -- Religion -- North America.
SUBJECT United States -- Church history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139926
Subject United States
United States -- Church history.
Genre/Form Church history
Form Electronic book
Author Harvey, Paul, 1961- author.
LC no. 2012004088
ISBN 9781469601540
1469601540
9780807837375
0807837377