Review: Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt’s ‘Black and Catholic’ is a tour de force in African-American sociology

December 22, 2025 | Black Catholic Messenger

Rana Irby calls the book a corrective to an academic corpus that has far too often forgotten the nation’s 3 million U.S. Black Catholics.

Much ink has been spilled in scholarly and religious spaces addressing the intersection of race and religion, especially in the context of the United States. Largely left out of the equation, however, are Black Catholics. Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt, in her new book “Black and Catholic: Racism, Identity and Religion,” seeks to rectify that.

 

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