Ignacio M. García

Chicano While Mormon (eBook, ePUB)

Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith

• Format: ePub

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. The narrative follows him as an immigrant boy in San Antonio, Texas, who finds religion, goes to segregated schools, participates in the first major school boycott of the modern era in Texas, goes to Viet Nam where he heads an emergency room in the Mekong Delta, and then to college where he becomes involved in the Chicano Movement. Throughout this time he juggles, struggles, and comes to terms with the religious principles that provide him the foundation for his civil rights activism and form the core of his moral compass and spiritual beliefs. In the process he pushes back against those religious traditions and customs that he sees as contrary to the most profound aspects of being a Mormon Christian. This memoir is about activism and religion on the ground and reflects the militancy of people of color whose faith drives them to engage in social action that defies simple political terminology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611478198
• Artikelnr.: 43812596

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