| Preface | p. vii |
| Preface to the 2000 Edition: How Did It Come to Be? | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Mexican-American Experience | p. 5 |
| Mestizaje | p. 7 |
| 1492: Year of Historic Beginnings | p. 7 |
| First Mestizaje: The Spanish-Catholic Conquest of Mexico | p. 9 |
| Mother of the New Race | p. 11 |
| Second Mestizaje: The Nordic-Protestant Conquest of Mexico | p. 13 |
| The Dynamics of Mestizaje | p. 16 |
| From Cultural Birth to Maturity | p. 19 |
| The Mexican-American People | p. 19 |
| Identity | p. 20 |
| Power Struggles: The Logic of Oppression and Liberation | p. 23 |
| Maturity | p. 27 |
| Living Faith: Resistance and Survival | p. 32 |
| Symbols of Ultimate Identity and Belonging | p. 32 |
| Symbols of Struggle, Suffering, and Death | p. 41 |
| Symbols of New Creation | p. 43 |
| The Gospel Matrix | p. 47 |
| The Galilee Experience | p. 49 |
| Galilee: Symbol of Multiple Rejection | p. 50 |
| The Kingdom of the Father: Symbol of Universal Acceptance, Welcome, and Love | p. 53 |
| The Galilean Crisis: Symbol of the Rupture That Inaugurates Liberation | p. 65 |
| Fulfillment in Jerusalem | p. 67 |
| Jerusalem: Symbol of Established Power | p. 68 |
| The Ultimate Struggle: Spirit versus Establishment | p. 70 |
| The Sundered Temple Veil: Symbol of the End of all Particularisms | p. 78 |
| Beyond All Borders | p. 79 |
| The New Existence | p. 79 |
| The Spirit of the New Creation | p. 82 |
| The New Universalism | p. 84 |
| From Margination to New Creation | p. 89 |
| The Galilee Principle | p. 91 |
| The Way of Jesus | p. 91 |
| The Church's Witness of Poverty | p. 92 |
| From Rejection to Election | p. 94 |
| Galilean Identity Today | p. 100 |
| The Jerusalem Principle | p. 103 |
| Our Way to Jerusalem | p. 104 |
| The Church: Beginning of the New Mestizo Creation | p. 105 |
| Mestizaje as Prophetic Mission | p. 107 |
| The Resurrection Principle | p. 115 |
| The Paradox of Death Unto Life | p. 115 |
| The Dry Bones Come to Life (Ezekiel 37) | p. 117 |
| Joy that Transcends Divisions | p. 119 |
| Epilogue: Twenty Years Later: The Global Contribution of Particularity | p. 126 |
| Notes | p. 134 |
| Bibliography | p. 137 |
| Scripture Index | p. 145 |
| General Index | p. 147 |
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