Chicano While Mormon: Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith

by Ignacio M. García

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611478200
• ISBN13: 9781611478204
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"