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Chicano While Mormon

Chicano While Mormon


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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.
About the Author: Ignacio M. García is the Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr. Professor of Western and Latino History at Brigham Young University, and a former bishop in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781611478204
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 260
  • Series Title: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Mormon Studies
  • Weight: 385 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1611478200
  • Publisher Date: 13 Apr 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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