He adds that another motivation for the book was their concern about the false concepts that children learn about faith and race before they even have the intellectual or social wherewithal to challenge them. “We decided to write about how God has been presented as white in the form of Jesus in order to expose how insidious racism has been throughout American history - that it even wraps itself in the flesh of God,” says Blum. Having grown up white in Oklahoma and New Jersey respectively, Blum and Harvey say they had to “unlearn a lot of white privilege over the years.” Chief among the ideas they sought to reverse in their thinking was the assumption that God is somehow attached to whiteness and white authority. Blum and Paul Harvey embark on a sweeping examination of how Americans came to believe in the whiteness of Jesus. In their groundbreaking new book The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America, historians Edward J.
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