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Chicano While Mormon

Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith
  • ISBN-13: 9781611478204
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Ignacio M. Garcia
  • Price: AUD $119.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/08/2017
  • Format: Paperback 260 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]
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This is a memoir of the early years of a well-known Chicano scholar whose work and activism were motivated by his Mormon faith. The narrative follows him as an immigrant boy in San Antonio, Texas, who finds religion, goes to segregated schools, participates in the first major school boycott of the modern era in Texas, goes to Viet Nam where he heads an emergency room in the Mekong Delta, and then to college where he becomes involved in the Chicano Movement. Throughout this time he juggles, struggles, and comes to terms with the religious principles that provide him the foundation for his civil rights activism and form the core of his moral compass and spiritual beliefs. In the process he pushes back against those religious traditions and customs that he sees as contrary to the most profound aspects of being a Mormon Christian. This memoir is about activism and religion on the ground and reflects the militancy of people of color whose faith drives them to engage in social action that defies simple political terminology.
Dedication Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Prologue Coming to America Growing Up Brown in Texas El Grito: Becoming Mexican Mormonismo: A Home for My Spiritual Yearnings Sidney Lanier High School: La Garra La Vida (not too) Loca of High School El Army Going to El Norte: Entering the Homefront Going to Viet Nam: the Brown Warrior Romance, Buddies, and Disillusionment Providing Mercy and Finding Death Again Flying Back to the Barrio Another Part of Texas: Another Part of the Spirit Two Steps Back into a Chicano World The College Life: Beyond the Activist Trenches United We Win: Politics in the Time of Chicanos El Final: Politics of Self-Destruction Final Thoughts on This Phase of My Life About the Author
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