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"People interested in critical race theory and Christians concerned
about faith integration and social justice will find this book to
be very helpful."--Library Journal Critical race theory has become
a lightning rod in contemporary American politics and evangelical
Christianity. This irenic book offers a critical but constructive
and sympathetic introduction written from a perspective rooted in
Scripture and Christian theology. The authors take us beyond
caricatures and misinformation to consider how critical race theory
can be an analytical tool to help us understand persistent
inequality and injustice--and to see how Christians and churches
working for racial justice can engage it in faithful and
constructive ways. The authors explore aspects of critical race
theory that resonate with well-trod Christian doctrine but also
that challenge or are corrected by Christian theology. They also
address the controversial connection that critics see between
critical race theory and Marxism. Their aim is to offer objective
analysis and critique that go beyond the debates about social
identity and the culture wars and aid those who are engaging the
issues in Christian life and ministry. The book includes a helpful
glossary of key terms.
Explores the power of faith to drive resistance to anti-immigration
policies in the United States God’s Resistance chronicles the
work of faith-based activists who have mobilized to counter the
effects of mass detention and deportation. Focusing on Southern
California, home to a large undocumented population, the authors
examine which strategies have been most effective, as well as the
obstacles that faith presents to organizing effectively. In-depth
interviews with over forty activists, leaders of congregations, lay
participants, and immigrants allow us to hear at first hand the
challenges and occasional triumphs of this work. The authors show
how faith-based organizations have a distinctive set of advantages
to leverage in social movements that are often overlooked and
underappreciated by secular activist organizations, but they also
face particular challenges that can hinder their effectiveness. The
volume offers insights into how these advantages can be maximized,
and how the obstacles can be overcome. The powerful testimony from
asylum seekers and detained immigrants found in these pages, along
with the concrete examples of effective strategies, are
indispensable for anyone invested in the fight to recognize the
humanity of one of the nation’s most vulnerable populations.
Explores the power of faith to drive resistance to anti-immigration
policies in the United States God’s Resistance chronicles the
work of faith-based activists who have mobilized to counter the
effects of mass detention and deportation. Focusing on Southern
California, home to a large undocumented population, the authors
examine which strategies have been most effective, as well as the
obstacles that faith presents to organizing effectively. In-depth
interviews with over forty activists, leaders of congregations, lay
participants, and immigrants allow us to hear at first hand the
challenges and occasional triumphs of this work. The authors show
how faith-based organizations have a distinctive set of advantages
to leverage in social movements that are often overlooked and
underappreciated by secular activist organizations, but they also
face particular challenges that can hinder their effectiveness. The
volume offers insights into how these advantages can be maximized,
and how the obstacles can be overcome. The powerful testimony from
asylum seekers and detained immigrants found in these pages, along
with the concrete examples of effective strategies, are
indispensable for anyone invested in the fight to recognize the
humanity of one of the nation’s most vulnerable populations.
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist Interest in and awareness
of the demand for social justice as an outworking of the Christian
faith is growing. But it is not new. For five hundred years,
Latina/o culture and identity have been shaped by their challenges
to the religious, socio-economic, and political status quo, whether
in opposition to Spanish colonialism, Latin American dictatorships,
US imperialism in Central America, the oppression of farmworkers,
or the current exploitation of undocumented immigrants.
Christianity has played a significant role in that movement at
every stage. Robert Chao Romero, the son of a Mexican father and a
Chinese immigrant mother, explores the history and theology of what
he terms the "Brown Church." Romero considers how this movement has
responded to these and other injustices throughout its history by
appealing to the belief that God's vision for redemption includes
not only heavenly promises but also the transformation of every
aspect of our lives and the world. Walking through this history of
activism and faith, readers will discover that Latina/o Christians
have a heart after God's own.
Are you a "revolutionary"? Are you curious about exploring issues
of race and social justice from a Christian perspective? This book
by UCLA Professor and Pastor, Robert Chao Romero, is for you!
Topics covered include: a biblical framework for understanding
poverty, race, and gender; undocumented immigration; politics;
affirmative action; mixed race issues; Christian social justice
pioneers; and, an introduction to the Christian world of social
justice and community development.
An estimated 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting Mexico's
second-largest foreign ethnic community at the time. "The Chinese
in Mexico" provides a social history of Chinese immigration to and
settlement in Mexico in the context of the global Chinese diaspora
of the era.
Robert Romero argues that Chinese immigrants turned to Mexico as
a new land of economic opportunity after the passage of the U.S.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. As a consequence of this
legislation, Romero claims, Chinese immigrants journeyed to Mexico
in order to gain illicit entry into the United States and in search
of employment opportunities within Mexico's developing economy.
Romero details the development, after 1882, of the "Chinese
transnational commercial orbit," a network encompassing China,
Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean, shaped and traveled by
entrepreneurial Chinese pursuing commercial opportunities in human
smuggling, labor contracting, wholesale merchandising, and
small-scale trade.
Romero's study is based on a wide array of Mexican and U.S.
archival sources. It draws from such quantitative and qualitative
sources as oral histories, census records, consular reports, INS
interviews, and legal documents. Two sources, used for the first
time in this kind of study, provide a comprehensive sociological
and historical window into the lives of Chinese immigrants in
Mexico during these years: the Chinese Exclusion Act case files of
the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the 1930
Mexican municipal census manuscripts. From these documents, Romero
crafts a vividly personal and compelling story of individual lives
caught in an extensive network of early transnationalism.
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