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  - 9780807835722
AV  - BR515 .B59 2012
U1  - 232 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Jesus Christ.
KW  - Racism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - United States
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Religion
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Church history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-325) and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -