La Salle professor explores ‘undoing the knots’ of Catholic anti-Blackness through her own family history

February 23, 2022 | The Philadelphia Inquirer

In “Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness,” Maureen H. O’Connell looks at the long-standing failure of Catholic universities to respond to racism.

By Susan Snyder | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Photo by Monica Herndon / Staff Photographer
In a new book, La Salle University associate professor Maureen H. O’Connell explores generations of American Catholic anti-Blackness within her family and the larger community and what she sees as the long-standing failure of Catholic universities to respond to racism.

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