Standing for the Whole

Historically, Mexican‐American political organizations have constructed political identities from a combination of race, class, and culture, but there are important exceptions that enrich our picture of ethnic political organizations and organizing. One is the Southwest Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF). When organizing inMexican‐Americanneighborhoods, the IAF uses an identity based on the Judeo‐Christian religious tradition and not on ethnic norms. By rejecting racial and class identities, the IAF hopes to avoid sectarianism, forge broad‐based alliances, and expand the level of political participation. I contend that the IAF's religiously based political identity is an innovative tool for mobilizing the poor, but one that neglects class‐based conflict. Further analysis reveals that the IAF's prescription for social change is predicated on the assumption that religious identities have the power to overcome those formed by economic and social privilege

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