Latinos and the New Immigrant Church (review)

IF 0.2 3区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW Pub Date : 2007-08-21 DOI:10.1353/cat.2007.0316
Antonio M Stevens Arroyo
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This book arrives on the academic scene in timely fashion. The existing English-language histories of Latino Catholics, often listed with the less fashionable “Hispanic Catholics,” are either highly focused on one specific locality or can be contained only in multiple volumes. Examples of the first type are Angélico Chávez’ classic Our Lady of the Conquest about New Mexico (1948) and Ana María Díaz-Stevens’ Oxcart Catholicism about Puerto Ricans in New York,which won the Cushwa Prize in 1993. Into the second type fall the threevolume series out of Notre Dame,edited by Jay Dolan.David A.Badillo has written a worthwhile history of Latino Catholics that includes ample reference to these other works but manages to condense it into one volume of 275 pages. Because it would have been impossible to cover every historical aspect, Badillo has wisely chosen to examine specific events at key moments in United States and Catholic history. Instead of a kind of tourist guide to Latino Catholic history trying to cover everything in a sort of once-over flight, Badillo has written a book that provides open windows to a theme of growing importance. The result is clearly superior to the kind of brief summaries of people and places that would have robbed history of much of its complexities.The reader is led to understand the roots of Latino Catholic identity by an examination of its Iberian and Latin American origins before nineteenth-century invasions by United States’ troops raised the Stars and Stripes over the people’s heads. Iberian-American Catholicism still reigned in our hearts, however, and Badillo does not shy from explaining the dilemma of a Catholicism based in the United States that was asked to Americanize the conquered in the Latino homelands as it was already Americanizing the immigrants from Europe. It is my experience that there is considerable intellectual resistance to the idea that Latinos and Latinas are principally “conquered peoples” rather than “immigrants seeking the American Dream.” Perhaps the resistance can be blamed on a reluctance to judge the United States as guilty of imperialism, but this point is crucial to a non-politicized understanding of church history. Badillo handles this difficult statement about as well as I have seen, being neither too partisan in his judgments nor too shallow in his criticisms.
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