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Outline of the 5th lecture in part one of the course. Part one of the course is entitled Latino Christianity in the United States.

Lecture #5--Twentieth-Century Struggles for Justice

1. Struggles for Justice: In Society
  • Mutual aid societies, e.g. La Alianza Hispano-Americana (1894)
  • League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC, 1929)
  • Participation in unions
  • GI Forum (1948)
  • United Farm Workers (César Chávez, Dolores Huerta)
  • Raza Unida Party (1970, José Angel Gutiérrez)
  • COPS, UNO, other community organizations (Ernie Cortés)
  • Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project (Willie Velasquez)
  • Sanctuary Movement

2. Struggles for Justice: In Church
  • Pastoral Institutes
  • Institute of Intercultural Communication (1957)
  • Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC, 1972)
  • Northeast Catholic Pastoral Center for Hispanics (1976)
  • Southeast Pastoral Institute (SEPI, 1978)
  • Padres Asociados para los Derechos Religiosos, Educativos, y Sociales (PADRES, 1969)
  • Católicos por la Raza (1969)
  • Las Hermanas (1971)
  • National Encuentros (1972, 1977, 1985, 2000)
  • U.S. bishops’ pastoral letter on Hispanic ministry (1983)
  • National Pastoral Plan for Hispanic Ministry (1987)
  • Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians in the United States (ACHTUS, 1988)
  • Hispanic Catholic associations for deacons, diocesan directors, seminarians, catechists, church historians, and other groups

3. Struggles for Justice: Latina/o Renewal Movements
  • Cofradias
  • Guadalupanas
  • Cursillo (1947, first introduced among U.S. Latinos in 1957)
  • Marriage Encounter (first brought to United States in 1968)
  • Charismatic Renewal/prayer groups
  • Basic Christian Communities

4. Theological Reflection
  • Theology and justice rooted in cultural/racial analysis (compare to Latin American theology)
  • Attempts of Latina theologians (and others) to integrate gender/race/class analysis
  • Models of Hispanic ministry: tradionalist, reformist, transformationist, multicultural
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