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Felipe Hinojosa is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University and the author of Latino Mennonites: Civil Rights, Faith, and Evangelical Culture. His work has appeared in Zócalo Public Square, Western Historical Quarterly, American Catholic Studies, and Mennonite Quarterly Review and in edited collections on Latinx studies.
Hinojosa does an excellent job of showing the importance of
religious spaces to Latina/o justice movements in the late 1960s
and early 1970s—a reality that has often been overlooked by
historians…[Apostles of Change] is important for anyone interested
in social movements, Latina/o history, and urban studies. The case
studies also offer wisdom that community workers and activists
might draw on for their work.
*The Christian Century*
Written in clear and engaging prose, Hinojosa’s Apostles of Change
is an important work that teaches us that people can be agents in
the creation of a brighter future for themselves and their
community. This work is well researched and will only become more
influential in years to come, particularly in the fields of Latino
religious studies, Latino Civil Rights, as well as Mexican American
history.
*Western Historical Quarterly*
In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Latino activists occupied church
buildings across the country as a way of taking back control of
their communities and calling attention to local residents’
poverty, lack of educational opportunities and displacement amid
revitalization plans that hiked up rents...Hinojosa gives this
little remembered movement a new look.
*Religion News Service*
[Apostles of Change] highlights the organizing of community
members, organizers, and activists as they transformed churches
into staging grounds to challenge poverty, racism, urban renewal,
and police brutality...In redefining the politics of faith,
Hinojosa analyzes the histories of organizing from spaces of
occupation to spaces of sanctuary within churches. Apostles of
Change is a vital addition to the research on social movements
within religious studies, Chicana/o/x studies, and Latina/o/x
studies.
*CHOICE*
Apostles of Change accomplishes Hinojosa’s goals of providing a
religious history of 'Latina/o freedom movements,' and a social
movement history of religion...Apostles of Change is a welcomed
contribution to the literature on Latina/o political movements for
its utilization of religion and urban history as frameworks of
analysis. Scholars of social movements, urban history, and religion
will find Hinojosa’s study imperative for understanding how
grassroots activists challenged gentrification, discrimination, and
power that connects the stories in the book to present obstacles
facing Latina/os.
*Pacific Historical Review*
In fifty years of incredible productivity in Chicano history,
surprisingly few studies of religious history were written. One of
the exciting new changes in this historiography is the increased
study of religion, especially the link between religion and
community activism. A new generation of historians is leading the
way, and Felipe Hinojosa is a key member of this vanguard...In
successfully resurrecting these histories, Hinojosa has written a
significant addition to the growing historiography of
Chicano/Latino religious history. Well-written and organized, it
should be welcomed by historians of the Chicano/Latino experience
and by those interested in American religions.
*Southwestern Historical Quarterly*
Hinojosa takes seriously both the religiosity of seemingly secular
activists and the politics of organized religion; at the nexus, he
charts a new Latina/o religious history that took its cues directly
from the streets...Hinojosa's occupiers offered radical visions for
their community's liberation, breathed new life into their barrios,
and remade their spiritual universes in both theological and
practical terms. They were true apostles of change. Hinojosa's
account of their exploits is a must-read for historians of social
movements, religion, and working-class studies alike.
*Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas*
A revolutionary contribution to Latinx church history in the United
States...Apostles of Change is an expertly crafted text that
integrates first-hand testimony, archive, and historical sources to
present this lesser-known side of Latinx activism in American
history.
*Perspectivas*
Apostles of Change is expertly researched and written—a tribute to
'short but fertile' moments that bring religion to the forefront of
Latinx social movements.
*Marginalia Review of Books*
Hinojosa provides an in-depth understanding of how faith-based
politics and social movements—rooted in religious institutions and
neighborhoods across the nation—became central to civil rights
activism, self-determination, and neighborhood
empowerment...Apostles of Change is a welcome addition to the
fields of civil rights history, religious history, and urban
history...Hinojosa’s excellent study leaves the reader wanting to
know more about how these occupations affected other cities in
their regions. Indeed, he has set a foundation for future scholars
to build on with this wealth of knowledge of occupations,
movements, and activism.
*Journal of Southern History*
Apostles of Change is a game-changer in how we view U.S. Latina/o
history. In this meticulously crafted and researched book, the
author urges his reader to move beyond the single-origin narratives
that historians tend to embrace and retell about movements, in
favor of a more complex, multi-layered story...Apostles of Change
is a must-read for anyone interested in U.S. Latina/o history and
in how Latinas and Latinos worked to raise awareness of the
entanglements of racism, white privilege, and institutional
churches’ complicity in perpetuating broken systems...I am grateful
to the author for his revisionist work that is essential reading
for anyone interested in U.S. history.
*Catholic Historical Review*
In-depth consideration of local struggles and local coalitions,
including across racial/ethnic groups...melding of archival and
oral history methods.
*Latinx Talk*
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