Daniel R. Bare, "Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era" (NYU Press, 2021)

New Books in African American Studies · Mar 11, 2022 · 1h 3m

As the modernist-fundamentalist controversy came to a head in the early twentieth century, an image of the “fighting fundamentalist” was imprinted on the American cultural consciousness. To this day, the word “fundamentalist” often conjures the image of a fire-breathing preacher―strident, unyielding in conviction . . . and almost always white. But did this major religious perspective really stop cold in its tracks at the color line? Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era (NYU Press, 2021) challenges the idea that fundamentalism was an…