Chicano While Mormon
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Chicano While Mormon

Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith

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Chicano While Mormon

Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Prologue
  5. Coming to America
  6. Growing Up Brown in Texas
  7. El Grito: Becoming Mexican
  8. Mormonismo: A Home for My Spiritual Yearnings
  9. Sidney Lanier High School: La Garra
  10. La Vida (not too) Loca of High School
  11. El Army
  12. Going to El Norte : Entering the Homefront
  13. Going to Viet Nam: The Brown Warrior
  14. Romance, Buddies, and Disillusionment
  15. Providing Mercy and Finding Death Again
  16. Flying Back to the Barrio
  17. Another Part of Texas: Another Part of the Spirit
  18. Two Steps Back into a Chicano World
  19. The College Life: Beyond the Activist Trenches
  20. United We Win: Politics in the Time of Chicanos
  21. El Final : Politics of Self-Destruction
  22. Final Thoughts on This Phase of My Life
  23. Index
  24. About the Author