Korie L. Edwards is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University, and is the co-author of Against All Odds: The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations.

The Elusive Dream continues an important line of research on multi-racial religious congregations in the U.S., skillfully revealing the insidious persistence of skewed power relations operating among people with even the best of intentions about race relations... A sobering and important book.

• Preface ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Decently and In Order: Congregational Worship ; Chapter 2: Bring Race to the Center: Extra-religious Activities ; Chapter 3: Spiritual Affirmative Action: Leadership Structure and Characteristics ; Chapter 4: Why Do They Come? ; Chapter 5: Racial Identity: Material for Cross-racial Bridging? ; Chapter 6: Reproducing White Hegemony ; Conclusion: Dream or Delusion ; Appendix A: Research Methods ; Appendix B: Tables ; Appendix C: Interview Guides

Korie L. Edwards is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University, and is the co-author of Against All Odds: The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations.

The Elusive Dream continues an important line of research on multi-racial religious congregations in the U.S., skillfully revealing the insidious persistence of skewed power relations operating among people with even the best of intentions about race relations... A sobering and important book.

• Preface ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Decently and In Order: Congregational Worship ; Chapter 2: Bring Race to the Center: Extra-religious Activities ; Chapter 3: Spiritual Affirmative Action: Leadership Structure and Characteristics ; Chapter 4: Why Do They Come? ; Chapter 5: Racial Identity: Material for Cross-racial Bridging? ; Chapter 6: Reproducing White Hegemony ; Conclusion: Dream or Delusion ; Appendix A: Research Methods ; Appendix B: Tables ; Appendix C: Interview Guides

Korie L. Edwards is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University, and is the co-author of Against All Odds: The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations.

The Elusive Dream continues an important line of research on multi-racial religious congregations in the U.S., skillfully revealing the insidious persistence of skewed power relations operating among people with even the best of intentions about race relations... A sobering and important book.

• Preface ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Decently and In Order: Congregational Worship ; Chapter 2: Bring Race to the Center: Extra-religious Activities ; Chapter 3: Spiritual Affirmative Action: Leadership Structure and Characteristics ; Chapter 4: Why Do They Come? ; Chapter 5: Racial Identity: Material for Cross-racial Bridging? ; Chapter 6: Reproducing White Hegemony ; Conclusion: Dream or Delusion ; Appendix A: Research Methods ; Appendix B: Tables ; Appendix C: Interview Guides