Description: Further DetailsTitle: Subversive HabitsCondition: NewSubtitle: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom StruggleISBN-10: 1478018208EAN: 9781478018209ISBN: 9781478018209Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/17/2022Description: In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them as the forgotten prophets of Catholicism and democracy. Drawing on oral histories and previously sealed Church records, Williams demonstrates how master narratives of women’s religious life and Catholic commitments to racial and gender justice fundamentally change when the lives and experiences of African American nuns are taken seriously. For Black Catholic women and girls, embracing the celibate religious state constituted a radical act of resistance to white supremacy and the sexual terrorism built into chattel slavery and segregation. Williams shows how Black sisters—such as Sister Mary Antona Ebo, who was the only Black member of the inaugural delegation of Catholic sisters to travel to Selma, Alabama, and join the Black voting rights marches of 1965—were pioneering religious leaders, educators, healthcare professionals, desegregation foot soldiers, Black Power activists, and womanist theologians. In the process, Williams calls attention to Catholic women’s religious life as a stronghold of white supremacy and racial segregation—and thus an important battleground in the long African American freedom struggle.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 567gAuthor: Shannen Dee WilliamsGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Subversive Habits
Title: Subversive Habits
Subtitle: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle
ISBN-10: 1478018208
EAN: 9781478018209
ISBN: 9781478018209
Release Date: 05/17/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 424 Pages
Publication Name: Subversive Habits : Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Christianity / Catholic, Christianity / Denominations, Black Studies (Global)
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2022
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science
Author: Shannen Dee Williams
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
