Throughout this book, we have argued that it is impossible to understand the United States without understanding both the role of race and the role of religion in animating American life. Racism and racial injustice remain potent forces because race has become “religionized” in the United States, and thus taken on a transcendent character. Racism and racial injustice do not recede—they merely shape-shift—because they are a life-giving force of a dominant group’s religion. That religion is the Religion of Whiteness.
