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a research question
Mar. 19th, 2019 11:14 pmvia https://ift.tt/2TYLJYq
a friend offline is looking for Black and Brown Catholics for a portrait series, and is stumped as for how to find them. He’s exhausted his local connections (he is himself a member of the local Latinx community) and is looking for people beyond his personal network, as part of a really big project he’s doing that’s beyond the scope of this question.
I know how to find churches, but how do you find out which churches serve specific congregations??
I assume you can just kind of… look up churches and … figure out… what neighborhoods… they serve? But how do you tell what ethnicity/race a neighborhood is? Literally I have no idea how you know that.
My only lead so far is that you could find out what languages they offer services in.
We Northern whites are so segregated that when I asked my dude, raised as part of a very active Catholic family, he said “I literally didn’t know there were any non-white Catholic congregations.” Like… zero awareness. And that’s how it is, with whites from segregated places: we literally just don’t realize we’re missing anything. I pointed out that Latin America is overwhelmingly Catholic, and he genuinely did not know that. Twelve years of Catholic school and he did not know that.
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a friend offline is looking for Black and Brown Catholics for a portrait series, and is stumped as for how to find them. He’s exhausted his local connections (he is himself a member of the local Latinx community) and is looking for people beyond his personal network, as part of a really big project he’s doing that’s beyond the scope of this question.
I know how to find churches, but how do you find out which churches serve specific congregations??
I assume you can just kind of… look up churches and … figure out… what neighborhoods… they serve? But how do you tell what ethnicity/race a neighborhood is? Literally I have no idea how you know that.
My only lead so far is that you could find out what languages they offer services in.
We Northern whites are so segregated that when I asked my dude, raised as part of a very active Catholic family, he said “I literally didn’t know there were any non-white Catholic congregations.” Like… zero awareness. And that’s how it is, with whites from segregated places: we literally just don’t realize we’re missing anything. I pointed out that Latin America is overwhelmingly Catholic, and he genuinely did not know that. Twelve years of Catholic school and he did not know that.
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