Title: Subversive Habits
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"--
Subjects: African American nuns, History, African American Catholics, Women in the Catholic Church, Segregation, Catholic Church, Catholiques noirs américains, Histoire, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, Religious aspects