Article: The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000.(Book review)

The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. By Colin Kidd (Cambridge, U.K., New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. viii plus 309 pp. $30.99).

Among the many strengths of Colin Kidd's book on the relationship between Protestantism and race from the seventeenth century to the present is his extended prologue, in which he coolly but methodically lays out the key points of the antiracist consensus that now embraces the full spectrum of scholarly practice, from the humanities to the hard sciences. Yet despite this broad agreement, there are still many issues to be addressed, and Kidd's study is predicated on his belief ...

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