Presente! U. S. Latino Catholics from Colonial Origins to the Present

Through dozens of original documents Presente! offers readers the story of Latino/Hispanic Catholicism from 1534 to the present. From the first mission encounters in the sixteenth century, to Cesar Chavez and the UFW, to the beginnings of mujerista theology in the 1980's this collection offers a unique and indispensable look at the community which has become the largest ethnic component in the American Catholic church today.