{"product_id":"apostles-of-change-latino-radical-politics-church-occupations-and-the-fight-to-save-the-barrio-historia-usa-9781477321980","title":"Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics  Church Occupations  and the Fight to Save the Barrio (Historia USA)","description":"\u003cp\u003e2021 Finalist Raul Yzaguirre Best Political\/Current Affairs Book  International Latino Book Awards Winner of the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education Inaugural Book Award Unraveling the intertwined histories of Latino radicalism and religion in urban America  this book examines how Latino activists transformed churches into staging grounds for protest against urban renewal and displacement.  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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647838183477,"sku":"ByrdShop_1477321985","price":39.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781477321980.jpg?v=1781697604","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/apostles-of-change-latino-radical-politics-church-occupations-and-the-fight-to-save-the-barrio-historia-usa-9781477321980","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}