Subversive Habits
Subtitle: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2022
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781478015574
Description: "In this groundbreaking study, Shannen Dee Williams offers the first full historical treatment of Black Catholic sisters in the United States. Drawing upon a host of untapped sources, including previously sealed church records and oral histories, Subversive Habits recovers Black sisters' lives and labors as pioneering Black religious leaders, educators, healthcare professionals, desegregation foot soldiers, Black power activists, and womanist theologians. This book also turns attention to female religious life in the Roman Catholic Church as a stronghold of white supremacy and racial segregation-and in turn an important battleground of the long African American freedom struggle"--