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Apostles of change : Latino radical politics, church occupations, and the fight to save the barrio / Felipe Hinojosa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hinojosa, Felipe, 1977- author.
- Series:
- Historia USA
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Radicalism--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--20th century.
- Radicalism.
- Radicalism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Urban renewal--Social aspects.
- History.
- Urban renewal.
- Church and social problems.
- Church buildings--Secular use.
- Protest camps.
- Hispanic Americans--Political activity.
- Hispanic Americans.
- United States.
- Hispanic Americans--Political activity--United States--History--20th century.
- Protest camps--United States--History--20th century.
- Church buildings--Secular use--United States--History--20th century.
- Church buildings.
- Church and social problems--United States--History--20th century.
- Urban renewal--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Christianity and politics--United States--History--20th century.
- Christianity and politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Latino radical politics, church occupations, and the fight to save the barrio
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-206) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781477322000
- 1477322000
- Publisher Number:
- 40030372192
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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