Ignacio M. García

Chicano While Mormon

Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a memoir of the early years of a well-known Chicano scholar whose work and activism were motivated by his Mormon faith. In this book, readers will learn about how Ignacio Garcia and other Latino Mormons navigate their religion and gain insight into what motivates people of faith in their social action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9781611478181
• ISBN-10: 1611478189
• Artikelnr.: 42199055

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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