Is Christian Nationalism White?

What is the relationship between White nationalism—the social and political praxis of White supremacy—and Christian nationalism, the historical-revisionist pursuit of a state exclusively by and for Christian people? Although the last decade of scholarship on militant conservative Christianity in American politics has often attended to race, there remains a fuzzy shared vocabulary on whether “Whiteness” is a non-negotiable organizing concept or a collateral marker of American Christian ‘culture.’ Compounding this issue are the seismic shifts of the 2024 presidential election, in which Donald Trump commanded the Latino vote and outperformed with several other minorities—as well as broader resentment animating an antidemocratic turn in political systems around the world. Through attention to key fronts in the “culture wars,” medieval iconography, Latin American and US Latino politics, and the American heartland in the Christian nationalist imaginary, this roundtable examines the utility of White Christian nationalism as a scholarly analytic.