Research Catalog

Title

Apostles of change : Latino radical politics, church occupations, and the fight to save the barrio / Felipe Hinojosa.

Author

Hinojosa, Felipe, 1977-

Publication

• Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xvi, 219 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

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. --

Series Statement

Historia USA

Uniform Title

Historia USA.

Alternative Title

Latino radical politics, church occupations, and the fight to save the barrio

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Radicalism > United States > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > 20th century
• Hispanic Americans > Political activity > History > United States > 20th century
• Protest camps > United States > History > 20th century
• Church buildings > Secular use > History > United States > 20th century
• Church and social problems > United States > History > 20th century
• Urban renewal > Social aspects > History > United States > 20th century
• Christianity and politics > United States > History > 20th century
• Christianity and politics
• Church and social problems
• Church buildings > Secular use
• Hispanic Americans > Political activity
• Protest camps
• Radicalism > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Urban renewal > Social aspects
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-206) and index.

Contents

The people's church -- Thunder in Chicago's Lincoln Park -- "People - yes, cathedrals - no!" in Los Angeles -- The people's church in East Harlem -- Magic in Houston's northside barrio -- When history dreams.

Call Number

JFE 21-7464

ISBN

• 9781477321980
• 1477321985

LCCN

• 2020027902
• 40030483276

OCLC

1151890372

Author

Hinojosa, Felipe, 1977- author.

Title

Apostles of change : Latino radical politics, church occupations, and the fight to save the barrio / Felipe Hinojosa.

Publisher

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

University and college faculty members

Series

Historia USA

Historia USA.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-206) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Standard Identifier

40030483276

Sudoc No.

Z UA380.8 H594ap txdocs

Research Call Number

JFE 21-7464