Mestizaje: (Re)Mapping Race, Culture, And Faith In Latino/a Catholicism

The concept of Mestizaje–a reference to the distinctive biological and cultural intermixture that occurred in the "New World"–had becme a foundational catagory in U.S. Latina/o theology. This book traces the subversive and innovative ways in which Catholic theologians have turned this concept into a powerful framework for articulating the experiences of faith of Latina/o communities.