The Color of Compromise : the Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism

Jemar Tisby
Nonfiction - 305.8009 Tis

An acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically—up to the present day—worked against racial justice. And a call for urgent action by all Christians today in response. The Color of Compromise is both enlightening and compelling, telling a history we either ignore or just don't know. Equal parts painful and inspirational, it details how the American church has helped create and maintain racist ideas and practices. You will be guided in thinking through concrete solutions for improved race relations and a racially inclusive church.


Antiracist Reading List

  • White Rage : the Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide


  • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race


  • The Color of Law : a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America


  • Overground Railroad : the Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America


  • How to be Less Stupid About Race : on Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide


  • Hood Feminism : Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot


  • Stony the Road : Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow


  • How We Get Free : Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective


  • How We Fight White Supremacy : a Field Guide to Black Resistance


  • So You Want to Talk About Race


  • The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness


  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness


  • Me and White Supremacy : Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor


  • The Color of Compromise : the Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism


  • When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir


  • Stamped from the Beginning : the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America


  • Towards Collective Liberation : Anti-racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy


  • "Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" : and Other Conversations About Race


  • How to be an Antiracist


  • They Were Her Property : White Women as Slave Owners in the American South