Front cover image for Parish boundaries : the Catholic encounter with race in the twentieth-century urban North

Parish boundaries : the Catholic encounter with race in the twentieth-century urban North

Steeples topped by crosses still dominate neighborhood skylines in many American cities, silent markers of local worlds rarely examined by historians. In Parish Boundaries, John McGreevy chronicles the history of these Catholic parishes and connects their unique place in the urban landscape to the course of American race relations in the twentieth century

eBook, English, 1996
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996