Daniel Camacho

Most multicultural churches—in spite of the best intentions—still center white experiences and require people of color to make bigger sacrifices in adjusting themselves to white norms. In The Elusive Dream: The Power of Race in Interracial Churches, sociologist Korie L. Edwards draws on both qualitative and quantitative methods to support her claim that the majority of “interracial churches work to the extent that they are, first, comfortable places for whites to attend.”