A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
A sociologist combines data, history, and personal reckoning to trace white supremacy within American Christianity.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
It prevents racial injustice from being treated as an external political issue unrelated to Christian formation. The book gives travelers both structural evidence and a model of interrogating one's own inherited location.
Good starting place if…
You want evidence for how white Christian institutions have shaped and resisted racial hierarchy—and are willing to examine family and congregational inheritance alongside public data.
Know before you begin…
Jones combines survey research, history, and memoir to make an argument about white Christianity in the United States. The category is broad, and institutional patterns do not determine every individual's convictions or conduct.