Aztlán and Arcadia : religion, ethnicity, and the creation of place /
In the wake of the Mexican-American War, competing narratives of religious conquest and re-conquest were employed by Anglo American and ethnic Mexican Californians to make sense of their place in North America. These ""invented traditions"" had a profound impact on North American...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York University Press,
2014
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In the wake of the Mexican-American War, competing narratives of religious conquest and re-conquest were employed by Anglo American and ethnic Mexican Californians to make sense of their place in North America. These ""invented traditions"" had a profound impact on North American religious and ethnic relations, serving to bring elements of Catholic history within the Protestant fold of the United States' national history as well as playing an integral role in the emergence of the early Chicano/a movement. Many Protestant Anglo Americans understood their settlement in the far Southwest as follo. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 207 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781479854905 1479854905 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
