Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio Hinojosa Felipe
2021 Finalist Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book, International Latino Book AwardsWinner of the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education Inaugural Book AwardIn the late 1960s,…
Specifikacia Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio Hinojosa Felipe
2021 Finalist Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book, International Latino Book AwardsWinner of the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education Inaugural Book AwardIn 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