| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston. By Roberto R. Treviño. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 308 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2996-X. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5667-3.)

Roberto R. Treviño makes a welcome contribution to Chicano history with his fine study of Catholic religious belief, practice, and institution building among Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Houston. Despite the marginalization and discrimination they faced in the U.S. Catholic Church, Mexicans relied on their faith to support social and community life in Houston barrios from the building of the first immigrant churches in the early twentieth century to the emergence of the Chicano social justice movement in the 1960s. Although there are similarities in the historical experiences of Mexican and European Catholic immigrants, especially Italian Catholics, Mexicans differed from those European groups in two important respects: their status as people of color and their distinct form of Catholicism, a melding of pre-Reformation Christianity and New World indigenous religions.

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