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Author:
García, Ignacio M., author.
Title:
Chicano while Mormon : activism, war, and keeping the faith / Ignacio M. García.
Publisher:
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
xxvii, 223 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
García, Ignacio M.
Hispanic American Mormons--Biography.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
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.
Series:
The Farleigh Dickinson University Press series in Mormon studies
ISBN:
1611478197 (electronic)
9781611478198 (electronic)
1611478189 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781611478181 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)900594723
LCCN:
2015004178
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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