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The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby

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challenging informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

5.0

This book gave me literal nightmares—and I mean that as a compliment. I tried to read it academically, but the contents of these pages refused to be so dryly categorized. An incisive historical look at how the White church has supported and perpetuated racism in the United States. This is a book that every American, and certainly every White Christian American, should read.
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informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

An excellent overview that exactly meets the objectives set out at the start of the book - a broad history of race in the US and then placing the church and its responses within that context. The book spans a lot of years in not a lot of pages. Tisby devotes a large number of pages to the general history, not just the church history, more than I was expecting and probably more than I personally needed because I've done a lot of similar reading in the last couple of years but not something that can be assumed. It's a Must-Read for all churches who want to invest in racial reconciliation (which should be all churches). He lays out clearly why and how race both has been and continues to be problematic in the American church. He doesn't stop with just identifying the problem though. He offers a whole list of solutions that can be taken by churches and individual Christians in support of reconciliation. 
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