Advance Praise for the Book
“This book is a marvel. It manages to quietly excoriate the insidious, entrenched attitudes that continue to sow racial hatred and division and to show the large and small ways that they continue. Devoid of moralizing, this powerful, heavily researched and annotated book is a must-read.”
—Booklist (Starred Review)
“White Too Long" is a powerful and much needed book. It is a direct challenge to white Christians to finally put aside the idolatry of whiteness in order to release the country and themselves into a different possibility. With clarity of moral vision, historical nuance, and the sensitivity of an artist’s pen, Jones has written a critical book for these troubled times.”
—Eddie S. Glaude Jr., James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University; author of "Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lesson for Our Own"
“Robert P. Jones’s searing "White Too Long" brilliantly argues that his fellow white Christians must dissent from their received faith and embrace a theology of racial justice. "White Too Long" is a prophetic call of redemption for folk who have too often idolized whiteness and worshipped America instead of the God of Martin, Fannie Lou and Jesse.”
—Michael Eric Dyson, University Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University; author of "Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America"
“In White Too Long, Robert Jones offers both searching personal testimony and a rigorous look at the facts to call white Christians to account for the scandalous ways white supremacists have regularly distorted and manipulated a faith dedicated to love and justice to rationalize racism. Jones is a rare and indispensable voice in our public conversation about religion because he combines painstaking data analysis with a sure moral sense. May this book encourage soul-searching, repentance, and conversion.”
—E. J. Dionne Jr., Columnist for The Washington Post; author of "Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country"
"With integrity and vulnerability, Jones exposes the subtle but profound compatibility between white supremacist ideology and white Christian theology. This remarkably courageous, must-read book helps white Christians in America finally face the question Jones had to ask himself, ''Can you be ''white'' and Christian?''"
—The Very Reverend Kelly Brown Douglas, Dean of Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary; Canon Theologian, Washington National Cathedral