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Book SynopsisAs the country recognizes the 101st birthday of former President Ronald Reagan, this memoir offers insight into a local Anglo-Protestant community in Westchester, California, that was but one grain of sand in a sea of change that led to the Reagan Revolution.
Trade ReviewCamacho has struck out a path of independent Chicano research that sheds light on issues avoided or ignored by more mainstream researchers. -- James Diego Vigil, Ph.D., professor of criminology, law, and society, University of California, Irvine, author of
From Indians to Chicanos and
Barrio GangsCamacho is a unique and appreciated scholar of the Mexican American experience. This work, the most recent of the author’s several contributions to Mexican American studies, is a poignant commentary on the conflicts, realities, and new future trends of the Mexican American experience. -- Robert LaCarra, Ph.D., professor of Chicano studies, Los Angeles Valley College
If Jesus Could Not Save Himself, How Would He Save Me? is another gut punch in the arsenal of the life and times of Julian Camacho. It brandishes a harsh truth not many of us are willing to accept with a take no prisoners style of storytelling. -- Oscar Barajas, Eastside correspondent, Newstaco.com
We hear of Mexican Americans as Christians, particularly Catholics, but we rarely read about their faith. Julian . . . provides us insight to a Protestant religious way of life in the 1980s when we were all Reagan’s babies. -- Marcos A. Ramos, Undergraduate Advisor for the College of Letters and Science, University of California, Berkeley
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. South Inglewood, 1981 2. My First Communion 3. A New Religion and Church 4. Westchester Assembly of God 5. Bible Class 6. Youth Ministry 7. Royal Rangers 8. Prayer Groups 9. Sunday Services 10. Riverside 11. Trouble 12. By Your Own Hands 13. The Deaths 14. 2000 15. The Wedding
