Veiled Leadership : Katharine Drexel, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, and Race Relations / Amanda Bresie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bresie, Amanda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--United States.

Race relations.

Equality--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--United States.

Equality.

Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament.

Drexel, Katharine Mary, Saint, 1858-1955.

Drexel, Katharine Mary.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : The Catholic University of America Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Veiled Leadership examines the lives of Mother Katharine and her congregation within the context of larger constructs of gender, race, religion, reform, and national identity. It explores what happens when a non-dominant culture tries to impose its views and morals on other non-dominant cultures. In other words, as outliers themselves-they were semi-cloistered Catholic women from primarily immigrant backgrounds in a culture that regarded their lifestyles as alien and unnatural-their attempts to Americanize and assimilate Black and Indigenous people, whose families had been in the country for generations longer than the nuns' own, adds complexity to our understanding of cultural hegemony"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"Go ye forth and teach all nations" : Mother Katharine Drexel's challenge to the Catholic Church

Received from other sources : Mother Katharine Drexel and the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions

"Souls! Souls! Should be our cry, our ambition, our only aim!" : SBS administration of Indigenous schools

Intent and impact : assessing SBS Indigenous Missions

Human rights and sacramental rights : SBS Missions in Black communities

Navigating race and religion in Jim Crow Louisiana

The Catholic Rosenwald Mother Katharine schools in rural Louisiana

From spiritual to temporal needs : the evolution of The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and Catholic Social Justice

"These Kluxes are all wrought up" : battling the "Catholic problem" and conflicting visions of America.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8132-3724-6

OCLC:

1396061464