Structure

Jemar Tisby divides The Color of Compromise into 11 titled and numbered chapters: "The Color of Compromise," "Making Race in the Colonial Era," "Understanding Liberty in the Age of Revolution and Revival," "Institutionalizing Race in the Antebellum Era," "Defending Slavery at the Onset of the Civil War," "Reconstructing White Supremacy in the Jim Crow Era," "Remembering the Complicity in the North," "Compromising with Racism during the Civil Rights Movement," "Organizing the Religious Right at the End of the Twentieth Century," "Reconsidering Racial Reconciliation in the Age of Black Lives Matter," and "The Fierce Urgency of Now." Attending to the titles of these chapters is paramount to understanding the author's structural, and thus thematic, intentions. Each chapter title presents the interests of the pages enclosed within, and effectively establishes a comprehensive overarching historical progression. The Color of Compromise endeavors to trace the origins and construction of racism in America...