Farmworker Frames: Apostólico Counter Narratives in California's Valleys
This article explores photographic records that capture the cultural production of Mexican Pentecostals in the agricultural valleys of California. It begins by setting the historical context of farm labor and accounting for the photographs taken by government workers of Dust Bowl migrants, which qui...
| Published in: | Journal of the American Academy of Religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2018]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 86, Issue: 3, Pages: 691-723 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
California
/ Seasonal worker
/ Mexican
/ Apostolic Assembly of the Faith in Christ Jesus
/ Religious group
/ Religious identity
/ Photography
/ Collection
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America KBR Latin America KDG Free church |
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| Summary: | This article explores photographic records that capture the cultural production of Mexican Pentecostals in the agricultural valleys of California. It begins by setting the historical context of farm labor and accounting for the photographs taken by government workers of Dust Bowl migrants, which quite intentionally created a standard narrative of rural poverty. This same photographic record portrayed Mexicans as mostly male and lacking cultural vibrancy. This article shows the sorts of religious narratives that are conveyed when we examine the photographs that were taken by Mexican farmworkers themselves. I use photographs and interviews as avenues of historical investigation to argue that even though Mexican Pentecostals of La Asamblea Apostólica de la Fe en Cristo Jesús (Apostólicos) occupied a peripheral social status as racialized and religious outsiders, beyond the frame of government photographs they actually produced a vibrant cultural-religious tradition in the same fields of exploitation. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfx057 |