In this dissertation, I will investigate how the Jehovah’s Witnesses negotiate the persistent and provincial claims of ethnicity and race. In Jehovah’s theocratic kingdom, ethnic particularities, political allegiances, socioeconomic distinctions and linguistic differences are (ideally) repudiated and dissolved. Witnesses firmly believe that “soon God’s kingdom will destroy the present ungodly system of things,” and that persons “out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues” will assemble in that great millennial paradise on the newly-renovated earth. This dissertation will focus on the interface between the global and the particular, between the millenarian globalism of Witness discourse and the practical exigencies encountered by American Witnesses in their attempts to embody those utopian ideals in the present. Based significantly on my fieldwork, I will focus specifically on how Witnesses confront and negotiate those volatile issues of race and color. While the Christian churches remain one of most consistently segregated social institutions in the United States, the Jehovah’s Witnesses militantly refuse to segregate their congregations on the basis of perceived race or color. A special concern of this dissertation project is to investigate how two particular Kingdom Halls—composed of Americans of both European and African descent—negotiate those complex and intransigent issues of ethnicity, color and race.