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Apostles of Change - Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio (Paperback)
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Apostles of Change - Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio (Paperback)
Series: Historia USA
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2021 Finalist Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book,
International Latino Book Awards Winner of the Texas Association of
Chicanos in Higher Education Inaugural Book Award Unraveling the
intertwined histories of Latino radicalism and religion in urban
America, this book examines how Latino activists transformed
churches into staging grounds for protest against urban renewal and
displacement. In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in
steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked
destruction and displacement on poor and working-class families.
The urban drama included religious institutions, themselves
undergoing fundamental change, that debated whether to stay in the
city or move to the suburbs. Against the backdrop of the Black and
Brown Power movements, which challenged economic inequality and
white supremacy, young Latino radicals began occupying churches and
disrupting services to compel church communities to join their
protests against urban renewal, poverty, police brutality, and
racism. Apostles of Change tells the story of these occupations and
establishes their context within the urban crisis; relates the
tensions they created; and articulates the activists' bold, new
vision for the church and the world. Through case studies from
Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and Houston, Felipe Hinojosa
reveals how Latino freedom movements frequently crossed boundaries
between faith and politics and argues that understanding the
history of these radical politics is essential to understanding the
dynamic changes in Latino religious groups from the late 1960s to
the early 1980s.
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