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Jemar Tisby
This Study Guide consists of approximately 38 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Color of Compromise.

Everything you need to study or teach literature!

Jemar Tisby
This Study Guide consists of approximately 38 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Color of Compromise.
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Describe the structure of The Color of Compromise. How do Tisby's structural decisions enact the texts thematic interests?

The Color of Compromise is divided into 11 numbered and titled chapters. The titles of each chapter highlight and introduce the primary thematic interests explored within. Tisby then divides each chapter into a series of titled subsections, which create a navigational framework on which the reader can rely to understand Tisby's arguments. These structural decisions allow Tisby to trace the origin of racism in the American colonies through the present day. Furthermore, Tisby is sure to position sociopolitical accounts alongside religious accounts, thus visually entangling the American political affairs with the affairs of the American Christian church. The close proximity of these discussions on the page mirrors the deep entanglement of church and state throughout American history, compelling the reader to notice the church's longtime tolerance and support of racist...

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