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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788131303321

Autore

García Ignacio M.

Titolo

Chicano while Mormon : activism, war, and keeping the faith / / Ignacio M. García

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

ISBN

1-61147-820-0

Disciplina

289.3092

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Soggetti

Hispanic American Latter Day Saints

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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 -- 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.