{"id":49087,"date":"2016-09-13T21:04:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T21:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49087"},"modified":"2016-09-13T21:04:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T21:04:19","slug":"racism-faced-by-black-nuns-in-america-called-dangerous-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49087","title":{"rendered":"Racism faced by black nuns in America called \u2018dangerous memory\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/cns\/2016\/08\/18\/racism-faced-black-nuns-america-called-dangerous-memory\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Racism faced by black nuns in America called \u2018dangerous memory\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse<\/a><br \/>\n2016-08-18<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Nelson<\/strong>, Catholic News Service<\/p>\n<p><em>In early American history black women could be accepted into orders of nuns only if they could &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">pass for white<\/a>,&#8221; and later they faced significant racial prejudice. Despite all that, they became role models for the black community in America and served as spiritual leaders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlanta\" target=\"_blank\">ATLANTA<\/a> &#8211; Black women desiring to serve a life devoted to the Catholic faith were not welcomed by religious communities with anti-black acceptance requirements from the early 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, said historian <a href=\"http:\/\/history.utk.edu\/people\/shannen-dee-williams\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shannen Dee Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those who could gain admittance faced discrimination from their fellow sisters, she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack sisters matter, but they constitute a dangerous memory for the church,\u201d said Williams, assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.<\/p>\n<p>She was joined by Sister Anita Baird, a Daughter of the Heart of Mary, and Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, general superior of the Sisters of Providence, on an Aug. 12 panel discussing racism in religious life at the assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Williams\u2019 upcoming book is called \u201cSubversive Habits: Black Nuns and the Long Struggle to Desegregate Catholic America.\u201d It was the subject of her doctoral dissertation at Rutgers University&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/cns\/2016\/08\/18\/racism-faced-black-nuns-america-called-dangerous-memory\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racism faced by black nuns in America called \u2018dangerous memory\u2019 Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse 2016-08-18 Andrew Nelson, Catholic News Service In early American history black women could be accepted into orders of nuns only if they could &#8220;pass for white,&#8221; and later they faced significant racial prejudice. 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