{"title":"Robert P. Jones","description":"Robert P. Jones is the president and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and a leading scholar and commentator on religion and politics. Jones writes regularly on politics, culture, and religion for The Atlantic, TIME, and Religion News Service. He is frequently featured in major national media, such as MSNBC, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. He holds a PhD in religion from Emory University and a MDiv from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, which won a 2021 American Book Award, and The End of White Christian America, which won the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. He writes a regular Substack newsletter at RobertPJones.substack.com.","products":[{"product_id":"white-too-long-the-legacy-of-white-supremacy-in-american-christianity-paperback","title":"White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An indispensible study\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review) drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience that presents a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for white Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves and the nation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the nation grapples with demographic changes and the legacy of racism in America, Christianity's role as a cornerstone of white supremacy has been largely overlooked. But white Christians--from evangelicals in the South to mainline Protestants in the Midwest and Catholics in the Northeast--have not just been complacent or complicit; rather, as the dominant cultural power, they have constructed and sustained a project of protecting white supremacy and opposing black equality that has framed the entire American story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith his family's 1815 Bible in one hand and contemporary public opinion surveys by Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) in the other, Robert P. Jones delivers \"a refreshing blend of historical accounting, soul searching reflection, and analysis\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) of the repressed relationship between Christianity and white supremacy. \u003ci\u003eWhite Too Long \u003c\/i\u003eis \"a marvel\" (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review) that demonstrates how deeply racist attitudes have become embedded in the DNA of white Christian identity over time and calls for an honest reckoning with a complicated, painful, and even shameful past. Jones challenges white Christians to acknowledge that public apologies are not enough--accepting responsibility for the past requires work toward repair in the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Too Long\u003c\/i\u003e is not an appeal to altruism. It is \"a powerful and much-needed book\" (Eddie S. Glaude Jr, professor at Princeton University and author of \u003ci\u003eBegin Again\u003c\/i\u003e) drawing on lessons gleaned from case studies of communities beginning to face these challenges. Jones argues that contemporary white Christians must confront these unsettling truths because this is the only way to salvage the integrity of their faith and their own identities. More broadly, it is no exaggeration to say that not just the future of white Christianity, but the outcome of the American experiment is at stake.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367972798687,"sku":"9781982122874","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/krLE6Nl7za9781982122874.webp?v=1789116994"},{"product_id":"the-hidden-roots-of-white-supremacy-and-the-path-to-a-shared-american-future-paperback","title":"The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTaking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma for models of racial repair, \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Roots of White Supremacy\u003c\/i\u003e is \"full of urgency and insight\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) as it helps chart a new course toward a genuinely pluralistic democracy.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning with contemporary effects to reckon with the legacy of white supremacy in America, Jones returns to the fateful year when a little-known church doctrine emerged that shaped the way five centuries of European Christians would understand the \"discovered\" world and the people who populated it. Along the way, he shows us the connections between Emmett Till and the Spanish conquistador Hernando De Soto in the Mississippi Delta, between the lynching of three Black circus workers in Duluth and the mass execution of thirty-eight Dakota men in Makato, and between the murder of 300 African Americans during the burning of Black Wall Street in Tulsa and the Trail of Tears. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom this vantage point, Jones offers a \"revelatory...searing, stirring outline\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review) of how the enslavement of Africans was not America's original sin but, rather, the continuation of acts of genocide and dispossession flowing from the first European contact with Native Americans. These deeds were justified by people who embraced the 15th-century Doctrine of Discovery: the belief that God had designated all territory not inhabited or controlled by Christians as their new promised land. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis \"blistering, bracing, and brave\" (Michael Eric Dyson) reframing of American origins explains how the founders of the United States could build the philosophical framework for a democratic society on a foundation of mass racial violence--and why this paradox survives today in the form of white Christian nationalism. Through stories of people navigating these contradictions in three communities, Jones illuminates the possibility of a new American future in which we finally fulfill the promise of a pluralistic democracy.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368280096991,"sku":"9781668009529","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/nTkKu93vt69781668009529.webp?v=1789125173"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/robert-p-jones.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}