The king of adobe : Reies López Tijerina, lost prophet of the Chicano movement /

The king of adobe : Reies López Tijerina, lost prophet of the Chicano movement /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Oropeza, Lorena, 1964- author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Description:	xii, 374 pages ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Tijerina, Reies. Tijerina, Reies. Mexican Americans -- Biography. Political activists -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography. Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography. Chicano movement -- History. Chicano movement. Civil rights workers. Mexican Americans. Political activists. United States. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11933239

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ISBN:	9781469653297 146965329X 9781469653303
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The King of Adobe offers a fresh and unvarnished look at the life of Reies López Tijerina (1926-2015), one of the most controversial, criticized, and misunderstood Chicano Movement leaders of the 1960s. Directly addressing allegations of anti-Semitism, accusations of sexual abuse, as well as evidence of extreme religiosity and possible mental illness, the book captures the life a man who changed our understanding of the American West" --

Table of Contents:

The king of kings
The prophet
The Mexican
The patriarch
The evangelist
The American
The Indo-hispano
The gunslinger
The Chicano
The martyr.