Losing Felicitas: A Story of Growing Up, Catholic School, and White Flight in Chicago

by Rebekah Heppner

Losing Felicitas tells a personal story of growing up in a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago and then moving away from it in 1969. St. Felicitas is the name of the Catholic parish that was the center of that neighborhood, and "felicitas" reflects what those who moved away feel they lost - it means blessed, happy. To the children of St. Felicitas, moving felt like losing the sense of blessed happiness they had growing up there. This is also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0578487195
• ISBN13: 9780578487199
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Rebekah S. Heppner, PhD
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"