The color of Christ the Son of God & the saga of race in America
Explores the dynamic nature of Christ worship in the U.S., addressing how his image has been visually remade to champion the causes of white supremacists and civil rights leaders alike, and why the idea of a white Christ has endured.
| Main Author: | Blum, Edward J. |
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| Other Authors: | Harvey, Paul, 1961- |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2012.
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Table of Contents:
- When Christ crossed the Atlantic
- Revolutionary visions in colonial confines
- From light to white in the early republic
- Body battles in antebellum America
- Christ in the camps
- Nordic and nativist in an age of imperialism
- The great commission in the Great Depression
- Civil rights and the coloring of Christ
- A deity in the digital age
- Epilogue: Jesus jokes.