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Author_Timothy B. Neary
Bishop Bernard Sheil
Category1=Non-Fiction
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Catholic social teaching
Catholic Youth Organization
Chicago
COP=United States
CYO
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HMM=229
IMPN=University of Chicago Press
interracial
ISBN13=9780226388762
John McGreevy
Language_English
PA=Available
parish
PD=20161129
pluralism
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PUB=The University of Chicago Press
SN=Historical Studies of Urban America
sports
Subject=History
urban history
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- ISBN 9780226388762
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 2016
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Controversy erupted in spring 2001 when Chicago's mostly white Southside Catholic Conference youth sports league rejected the application of the predominantly black St. Sabina grade school. Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, interracialism seemed stubbornly unattainable, and the national spotlight once again turned to the history of racial conflict in Catholic parishes. It's widely understood that midcentury, working class, white ethnic Catholics were among the most virulent racists, but, as Crossing Parish Boundaries shows, that's not the whole story. In this book, Timothy B. Neary reveals the history of Bishop Bernard Sheil's Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), which brought together thousands of young people of all races and religions from Chicago's racially segregated neighborhoods to take part in sports and educational programming. Tens of thousands of boys and girls participated in basketball, track and field, and, the most popular sport of all, boxing, which regularly filled Chicago Stadium with roaring crowds.
The history of Bishop Sheil and the CYO shows a cosmopolitan version of American Catholicism, one that is usually overshadowed by accounts of white ethnic Catholics aggressively resisting the racial integration of their working-class neighborhoods. By telling the story of Catholic-sponsored interracial cooperation within Chicago, Crossing Parish Boundaries complicates our understanding of northern urban race relations in the mid-twentieth century.
Timothy B. Neary is associate professor of history at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.
