03173cam a2200325 i 4500 936593422 TxAuBib 20230925120000.0 230516s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023021032 9781668009512 HRD 29.99 166800951X HRD 29.99 TxAuBib rda Jones, Robert P, author, (Robert Patrick.) The hidden roots of white supremacy [BOOK] : and the path to a shared American future / Robert P. Jones. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023. ix, 387 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Before Mississippi -- The murder of Emmett Till -- Commemoration and repair in Mississippi -- Before Minnesota -- The lynchings in Duluth -- Commemoration and repair in Minnesota -- Before Oklahoma -- The Tulsa Race Massacre -- Commemoration and repair inOklahoma -- The search for hope in history -- Discovery and democracy in America. Beginning with contemporary efforts to reckon with the legacy of white supremacy in America, Jones returns to the fateful year when a little-known church doctrine emerged that shaped the way five centuries of European Christians would understand the “discovered” world and the people who populated it. Along the way, he shows us the connections between Emmett Till and the Spanish conquistador Hernando De Soto in the Mississippi Delta, between the lynching of three Black circus workers in Duluth and the mass execution of thirty-eight Dakota men in Mankato, and between the murder of 300 African Americans during the burning of Black Wall Street in Tulsa and the Trail of Tears. From this vantage point, Jones shows how the enslavement of Africans was not America’s original sin but, rather, the continuation of acts of genocide and dispossession flowing from the first European contact with Native Americans. These deeds were justified by people who embraced the 15th century Doctrine of Discovery: the belief that God had designated all territory not inhabited or controlled by Christians as their new promised land. This reframing of American origins explains how the founders of the United States could build the philosophical framework for a democratic society on a foundation of mass racial violence—and why this paradox survives today in the form of white Christian nationalism. Through stories of people navigating these contradictions in three communities, Jones illuminates the possibility of a new American future in which we finally fulfill the promise of a pluralistic democracy. Provided by publisher. 20230925. Racism United States History. Reconciliation United States Case studies. Reparations for historical injustices United States Case studies. United States Race relations History.