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Author Hinojosa, Felipe, 1977- author.

Title Apostles of change : Latino radical politics, church occupations, and the fight to save the barrio / Felipe Hinojosa
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Historia USA
Historia USA.
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
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. -- From dust jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed July 21, 2022)
Subject Radicalism -- United States -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- 20th century
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 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
HISTORY / General
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 Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781477322000
1477322000