Latino Mennonites: Civil Rights, Faith, and Evangelical Culture

Contents

Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Abbreviations xix Introduction: Interethnic Alliances, Sacred Spaces, and the Politics of Latino Evangelicalism 1 Part I Missions and Race chapter 1. Building Up the Temple: Mennonite Missions in Mexican and Puerto Rican Barrios 17 chapter 2. Missionary Motives: Race and the Making of the Urban Racial Council 48 Part II Black, Brown, and Mennonite chapter 3. The Fight over Money: Latinos and the Black Manifesto 75 chapter 4. “Jesus Christ Made a Macho Outta Me!”: The 1972 Cross-Cultural Youth Convention 98 chapter 5. Social Movement or Labor Union? Mennonites and the Farmworker Movement 122 viii T contents U Part III Becoming Evangélicos chapter 6. Mujeres Evangélicas: Negotiating the Borderlands of Faith and Feminism 149 chapter 7. “Remember Sandia!”: Meno-Latinos and Religious Identity Politics 174 Conclusion: Latino Mennonites and the Politics of Belonging 203 Notes 221 Bibliography 267 Index 287 ...