The National Hispanic Cultural Center welcomes author Ramón Gutiérrez for a lecture followed by a book signing on October 23.
Ramón Gutiérrez will discuss his book, New Mexico’s Moses: Reies López Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. In New Mexico’s Moses, Gutiérrez dives deeply into López Tijerina’s religious formation during the 1940s and 1950s. An Assemblies of God evangelist turned Pentecostal itinerant preacher, Tijerina used his secularized apocalyptic theology to inspire the dispossessed heirs of Spanish and Mexican land grants fighting to recuperate ancestral lands throughout northern New Mexico and the Southwest.
6:00 pm: Reception and Book Signing
7:00 pm: Author’s Talk followed by Q&A
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