Two books look at Black Catholic experience from different a

'Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle' by Shannen Dee Williams. Duke University Press (Durham, North Carolina, 2022). 424 pp., $29.95.

'Fat Luther, Slim Pickin's: A Black Catholic Celebration of Faith, Tradition and Diversity' by Marcia Lane-McGee and Shannon Wimp Schmidt. Ave Maria Press (Notre Dame, Indiana, 2022). 192 pp., $17.95.

In Catholic books, an African American perspective is usually missing; these two books attempt to address that imp

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