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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 following in the
footsteps of the colonial project begun by Catholic Spanish missionaries. In
contrast, Californios—Mexican-Americans and Chicana/os—stressed
deep connections to a pre-Columbian past over to their own Spanish heritage.
Thus, as Anglo Americans fashioned themselves as the spiritual heirs to the
Spanish frontier, many ethnic Mexicans came to see themselves as the spiritual
heirs to a southwestern Aztec homeland.

Aztlán and Arcadia: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Creation of Place

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In the wake of the Mexican-American War, competing narratives of religious conquest and re-conquest were employed by Anglo American and... Read more

    Publisher: New York University Press
    Publication Date: 22/08/2014
    ISBN13: 9781479850648, 978-1479850648
    ISBN10: 1479850640

    Number of Pages: 232

    Non Fiction , History

    Description

    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 following in the
    footsteps of the colonial project begun by Catholic Spanish missionaries. In
    contrast, Californios—Mexican-Americans and Chicana/os—stressed
    deep connections to a pre-Columbian past over to their own Spanish heritage.
    Thus, as Anglo Americans fashioned themselves as the spiritual heirs to the
    Spanish frontier, many ethnic Mexicans came to see themselves as the spiritual
    heirs to a southwestern Aztec homeland.

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