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Catolicos - Resistance and Affirmation in Chicano Catholic History (Paperback)
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Catolicos - Resistance and Affirmation in Chicano Catholic History (Paperback)
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Chicano Catholicism--both as a popular religion and a foundation
for community organizing--has, over the past century, inspired
Chicano resistance to external forces of oppression and
discrimination including from other non-Mexican Catholics and even
the institutionalized church. Chicano Catholics have also used
their faith to assert their particular identity and establish a
kind of cultural citizenship. Based exclusively on original
research and sources, Mario T. Garcia here offers the first major
historical study to explore the various dimensions of the role of
Catholicism in Chicano history in the twentieth century. This is
also one of the first significant studies in the still limited
field of Chicano religious history. Topics range from how early
Chicano Catholic intellectuals and civil rights leaders were
influenced by Catholic Social Doctrine, to the role that popular
religion has played in the lives of ordinary men and women in both
rural and urban areas. Garcia also examines faith-based Chicano
community movements like Catolicos Por La Raza in the 1960s and the
Sanctuary movement in Los Angeles in the 1980s. While Latino/a
history and culture has been, for the most part, inextricably
linked with the tenets and practices of Catholicism, there has been
very little written, until recently, about Chicano Catholic
history. Garcia helps to fill that void and explore the
impact--both positive and negative--that the Catholic experience
has had on the Chicano community.
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