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Timothy Matovina, Mario T. Garcia. Father Luis Olivares, a Biography: Faith, Politics, and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles., The American Historical Review, Volume 126, Issue 2, June 2021, Pages 834–835, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab302
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Future historians will be in the debt of Mario García for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is his unparalleled attention to biographies and autobiographical testimonios of leading figures in Mexican American and Chicanx history. García has composed volumes on the lives of El Paso mayor Raymond L. Telles, activist Bert Corona, Mexican American migrant daughter Frances Esquibel Tywoniak, professor Luis Leal, journalist Rúben Salazar, priest Virgil Cordano, educator Sal Castro, the foundational figure of Católicos Por la Raza Richard Cruz, the writings of Dolores Huerta and César Chávez, and shorter biographical analyses on a range of figures in his respective books on the Mexican American leadership of the twentieth century, including Chicano Catholics, the Chicano generation of activists, and the more recent Latinx generation. Collectively, these works compile numerous oral and documentary sources that otherwise may have been lost, many of which García has made available in the Mario T. Garcia Papers at his alma mater, the University of Texas at El Paso, as well as in other archival collections, such as those at Stanford University, UCLA, and the University of California Santa Barbara. Moreover, García’s analyses of these voluminous materials insightfully assess how his subjects shaped and were shaped by the historical contexts in which they lived.
