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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778977003321

Autore

McMahon Eileen M. <1954->

Titolo

What parish are you from? : a Chicago Irish community and race relations / / Eileen M. McMahon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1996

©1995

ISBN

0-8131-8872-5

0-8131-0894-2

0-8131-4927-4

0-8131-7054-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

305.6/2077311

Soggetti

Irish Americans - Ethnic identity

Catholics - Illinois - Chicago

Race relations - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Irish Americans - Illinois - Chicago

Parishes - Illinois - Chicago

Chicago (Ill.) Church history

Chicago (Ill.) Race relations Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Making of the Irish Parish Community: A Historical Background; 2 St. Sabina: A Parish Founded on a Prairie; 3 ""I'm from Sabina's,"" 1916 to 1941; 4 Ticket to Heaven: Community and Religion at St. Sabina's, 1940 to 1960; 5 The Saints Come Marching In: Irish and Catholic Identity; 6 The Troubles: Racial Tension and the Parish Community; 7 Make No Small Plans: The Parish Community and the OSC; 8 Where Two or Three Are Gathered: St. Sabina's in the 1960s; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B

CD; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

For Irish Americans as well as for Chicago's other ethnic groups, the local parish once formed the nucleus of daily life. Focusing on the



parish of St. Sabina's in the southwest Chicago neighborhood of Auburn-Gresham, Eileen McMahon takes a penetrating look at the response of Catholic ethnics to life in twentieth-century America. She reveals the role the parish church played in achieving a cohesive and vital ethnic neighborhood and shows how ethno-religious distinctions gave way to racial differences as a central point of identity and conflict.For most of this century the parish served as an i