| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Latinos and the New Immigrant Church. By David A. Badillo. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xxvi, 275 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8018-8387-3. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8018-8388-1.)

David A. Badillo meticulously documents the evolution of the U.S. Latino "immigrant" Catholic Church through a historical analysis of this religious community from the early through the mid-twentieth century in Latinos and the New Immigrant Church. This unique and impressive project has an ambitious scope and takes a comparative approach to examine the historical evolution of Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans as part of U.S. Roman Catholic parishes in San Antonio, New York City, Miami, and Chicago. That analysis comprises a large part of the book, with six of the eight chapters devoted to the formation of Latino Catholic communities in transition from Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Cuba to major U.S. cities. These sweeping historical chapters are nicely complemented with personal narratives and stories of the faithful, in addition to an ethnographic case study in chapter 6 of the suburbanization, religion, and transnational identities among Latino Catholics in Chicago. Badillo's focus is motivated by his scholarly conviction that the period from the early through the mid-twentieth century precedes vast ecclesiastical and demographic changes, and is central to the development of Latino urbanization and ethnicity.

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