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Subversive Habits
- Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle
- Narrated by: Machelle Williams
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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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.
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