Ignacio M. Garcia

GNACIO M. GARCIA {[email protected]} is the Lemuel Hardison Redd Jr. Professor of Western & Latino History at Brigham Young University. He is the author of six books on Mexican American civil rights, politics and sports, a war novel (Can Tho), and a memoir, Chicano While Mormon: Activism, War and Keeping the Faith. He is cur￾rently working on a biographical work of Eduardo Balderas, the first translator for the LDS Church. He has served as an LDS bishop twice.

Articles

Thoughts on Latino Mormons, Their Afterlife, and the Need for a New Historical Paradigm for Saints of Color

The following thoughts come from my experience as a faithful and ortho dox Latter-day Saint, as a Mormon bishop, as a critic of some aspects of institutionalized Mormonism, and as an activist and scholar of faith navigating what is and has been for most of my life a complicated environment where racial/ethnic issues are ever present but rarely discussed in ways that bring closure. My particular scholarship and activism on behalf of Mexicans and Latinos is encapsulated within this setting and I admit that I have not been freed from the complication that it brings to my faith except for those moments when I immerse myself in those Latino Mormon spaces that are my Spanish-language barrios (wards).

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Podcasts

Dialogue Book of Mormon Gospel Study with Ignacio Garcia on Alma 30–31

Ignacio M. Garcia is the Lemuel Hardison Redd Jr. Professor of Western & Latino History at Brigham  Young University. Read more