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We present uncontaminated rest-frame u - R colors of 78 X-ray-selected AGNhosts at 0.5 < z < 1.5 in the Chandra Deep Fields measured with HST/ACS/NICMOSand VLT/ISAAC imaging. We also present spatially-resolved NUV - R colorgradients for a subsample of AGN hosts imaged by HST/WFC3. Integrated,uncorrected photometry is not reliable for comparing the mean properties ofsoft and hard AGN host galaxies at z ~ 1 due to color contamination frompoint-source AGN emission. We use a cloning simulation to develop a calibrationbetween concentration and this color contamination and use this to correct hostgalaxy colors.  The mean u - R color of the unobscured/soft hosts beyond ~6 kpc isstatistically equivalent to that of the obscured/hard hosts (the soft sourcesare 0.09 +/- 0.16 magnitudes bluer). Furthermore, the rest-frame V - J colorsof the obscured and unobscured hosts beyond ~6 kpc are statisticallyequivalent, suggesting that the two populations have similar distributions ofdust extinction. For the WFC3/IR sample, the mean NUV - R color gradients ofunobscured and obscured sources differ by less than ~0.5 magnitudes for r > 1.1kpc. These three observations imply that AGN obscuration is uncorrelated withthe star formation rate beyond ~1 kpc.  These observations favor a unification scenario for intermediate-luminosityAGNs in which obscuration is determined geometrically. Scenarios in which themajority of intermediate-luminosity AGN at z ~ 1 are undergoing rapid,galaxy-wide quenching due to AGN-driven feedback processes are disfavored.

AGN Unification at z ~ 1: u - R Colors and Gradients in X-ray AGN Hosts