November 7 Monday, 4:30pm | Oakley Center
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. In his recently published book, Felipe Hinojosa gives this little remembered movement a new look, focusing on four cities — Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Houston — where these “apostles of change,” as Hinojosa calls both the groups and his book, inhabited churches to show the “power of the church in neighborhoods across the country.”
Felipe Hinojosa is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University. His research areas include Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, American Religion, Race and Ethnicity, and Social Movements. In addition to serving as Director of the Carlos H. Cantu Hispanic Education & Opportunity Endowment, Prof. Hinojosa serves as editor for the interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, and online moderated forum Latinx Talk.