TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blum,Edward J.
AU  - Harvey,Paul
TI  - The color of Christ: the Son of God & the saga of race in America 
SN  - 9781469601540
AV  - BR515 .B59 2012eb
U1  - 232 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Jesus Christ
KW  - Jesus Christ.
KW  - Racism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - United States
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Religion
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Religion and culture
KW  - Church history
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Christology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Black interpretations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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
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