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notbecauseofvictories replied to your post “a research question”
Oh, hey, the US Council of Bishops and Notre Dame did a survey in 2011: http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/cultural-diversity/african-american/demographics/parishes-with-a-strong-black-catholic-presence.cfm
notbecauseofvictories replied to your post “a research question”
Some Catholic Churches offer the liturgy in Spanish, I would try seeking out those churches first. Also, I know that Chicago and Philly (at least) have offices/programs that reach out to the Latinx and Black Catholic communities in their respective archdioceses. If your friend is in a metropolitan area, they might have something similar.
chippanfire replied to your post “a research question”
I guess my very international minded white Irish Catholic family is unusual. Several jesuit uncles, growing up knowing about Óscar Romero… Is offline friend after local congregations?
sizequeen1 replied to your post “a research question”
Try Haitian churches. They tend to be Catholic.
missbuster replied to your post “a research question”
I think you do the difficult thing and contact the churches individually saying you are conducting research and would like to document members of colour. I am not a churchgoer at all so I would be honest about my intentions and my lack of knowledge.
These are all great answers. Thanks, guys!!
(I was aware of the more international aspects of the Catholic Church myself, too! but Dude had like, zero clue. In his defense, I guess, many of the Latinxs in this city are Puerto Ricans who’ve gone into the Pentecostal church, so most of the brown folks he knows are in fact not Catholic. I guess I can see how that’d confuse matters in his understanding.)
My friend is actually looking for more specific subgroupings, people with specific experiences, for this project, but he figures he’s got to generally find the Catholic people of color first and then once he’s found them he can kind of drill down and look for the specific things he’s trying to focus on. (More generally– he’s been doing portrait projects for a long time and while he shoots pretty widely, he has tended to take more photos of people of color in his wider practice, so this is not as strange as my description is making it sound. He has a beautiful Instagram full of portraits somewhere, I should find it and link it.)
The awkwardness is somewhat allayed, I think, by him being a man of color himself, and of a Catholic upbringing too; if I walked up and was like SO WHERE DO THE BROWN FOLKS GO TO CHURCH ROUND THESE PARTS EH it would be alarming and kind of gross, but if he’s like, uh hey guys, it’s a lot less weird. (He’s also a pretty charismatic guy, so he probably could just be like “So where do brown people live, around here” and it wouldn’t be creepy. I have trouble envisioning it but I have confidence he could do it.)
He’s got a few leads in as well, to the specific things he’s looking for, but he’s casting his net very broadly– he’s started off in Syracuse, and has been looking into New York City, and cities in Massachusetts, and– all over, really. So.
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notbecauseofvictories replied to your post “a research question”
Oh, hey, the US Council of Bishops and Notre Dame did a survey in 2011: http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/cultural-diversity/african-american/demographics/parishes-with-a-strong-black-catholic-presence.cfm
notbecauseofvictories replied to your post “a research question”
Some Catholic Churches offer the liturgy in Spanish, I would try seeking out those churches first. Also, I know that Chicago and Philly (at least) have offices/programs that reach out to the Latinx and Black Catholic communities in their respective archdioceses. If your friend is in a metropolitan area, they might have something similar.
chippanfire replied to your post “a research question”
I guess my very international minded white Irish Catholic family is unusual. Several jesuit uncles, growing up knowing about Óscar Romero… Is offline friend after local congregations?
sizequeen1 replied to your post “a research question”
Try Haitian churches. They tend to be Catholic.
missbuster replied to your post “a research question”
I think you do the difficult thing and contact the churches individually saying you are conducting research and would like to document members of colour. I am not a churchgoer at all so I would be honest about my intentions and my lack of knowledge.
These are all great answers. Thanks, guys!!
(I was aware of the more international aspects of the Catholic Church myself, too! but Dude had like, zero clue. In his defense, I guess, many of the Latinxs in this city are Puerto Ricans who’ve gone into the Pentecostal church, so most of the brown folks he knows are in fact not Catholic. I guess I can see how that’d confuse matters in his understanding.)
My friend is actually looking for more specific subgroupings, people with specific experiences, for this project, but he figures he’s got to generally find the Catholic people of color first and then once he’s found them he can kind of drill down and look for the specific things he’s trying to focus on. (More generally– he’s been doing portrait projects for a long time and while he shoots pretty widely, he has tended to take more photos of people of color in his wider practice, so this is not as strange as my description is making it sound. He has a beautiful Instagram full of portraits somewhere, I should find it and link it.)
The awkwardness is somewhat allayed, I think, by him being a man of color himself, and of a Catholic upbringing too; if I walked up and was like SO WHERE DO THE BROWN FOLKS GO TO CHURCH ROUND THESE PARTS EH it would be alarming and kind of gross, but if he’s like, uh hey guys, it’s a lot less weird. (He’s also a pretty charismatic guy, so he probably could just be like “So where do brown people live, around here” and it wouldn’t be creepy. I have trouble envisioning it but I have confidence he could do it.)
He’s got a few leads in as well, to the specific things he’s looking for, but he’s casting his net very broadly– he’s started off in Syracuse, and has been looking into New York City, and cities in Massachusetts, and– all over, really. So.
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