| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly 32.2

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| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly 32.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912–1999. By Jorge Iber. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2000. xvi + 196 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

Jorge Iber adds some important nuances to the complex portrait of "Hispanic life" in the United States. He discusses issues of class, ethnicity, gender, religion, discriminatory practices, organizational structure, ideology, economics, and state power. And in doing so, perhaps he attempts to cover too much ground, too hastily. Sometimes his evidence will not bear the weight of his interpretations. Or he will raise a contentious subject, and dispense with it in a sentence or two. Yet these are minor distractions in what is a very ambitious undertaking. He has done copious research, and he anchors his argument with references to the growing historiography on Hispanics in the United States. 1

Iber chooses "Hispanic" to encompass the ethnically and culturally varied Spanish-speaking people who lived in Utah between 1912 and 1999, though at times it seems to be an artificial label that obscures more than it reveals. Most Hispanics were from Mexico or were Mexican-Americans, but people from New Mexico, Spain, Central and South America, Cuba, and Puerto Rico were also moving to Utah. Moreover, after the 1960s, increasing numbers of Hispanics spoke no Spanish. Compared to their numbers in the Southwest, however, Hispanics were never more than a small proportion of the population in Utah. . . .

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