The Elusive Dream
The Power of Race in Interracial Churches
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 28 August 2008
- ISBN 9780195314243
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 160x234x22 mm
- Weight 474 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The Elusive Dream demontrates, through nuanced analysis and in-depth study, that interracial churches in fact help to perpetuate the very racial inequality they aim to abolish. using national survey data and deatiled examination of one particular church, Edwards shows that mixed-race church congregations adapt their behaviour and adhere strongly to white norms. Thorough, incisive, and surprising, The Elusive Dream raises provocative questions about the ongoing problem of race in the national culture.
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It is communion Sunday at a mixed-race church. A black pastor and white head elder stand before the sanctuary as lay leaders pass out the host. An African-American woman sings a gospel song as a woman of Asian descent plays the piano. Then a black woman in the congregation throws her hands up and yells, over and over, "Thank you Lawd!" A few other African-Americans in the pews say "Amen," while white parishioners sit stone-faced. The befuddled white head elder reads aloud from the Bible, his soft voice drowned out by the shouts of praise. Even in this proudly interracial church, America's racial divide is a constant presence.
In The Elusive Dream, Korie L. Edwards presents the surprising results of an in-depth study of interracial churches: they help perpetuate the very racial inequality they aim to abolish. To arrive at this conclusion, she combines a nuanced analysis of national survey data with an in-depth examination of one particular church. She shows that mixed-race churches adhere strongly to white norms. African Americans in multiracial settings adapt their behavior to make white congregants comfortable. Behavior that white worshipers perceive as out of bounds is felt by blacks as too limiting. Yet to make interracial churches work, blacks must adjust their behavior to accommodate the predilections of whites. They conform to white expectations in church just as they do elsewhere.
Thorough, incisive, and surprising, The Elusive Dream raises provocative questions about the ongoing problem of race in the national culture.
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.
Table of Contents:
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
