About the author
Jorge Iber is a historian whose scholarship focuses on the Latino experience in the American West. Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999, published by Texas A&M University Press, traces the settlement and community life of Mexican and Mexican American immigrants within Utah's predominantly Mormon population across most of the twentieth century, examining how a religiously and culturally distinct minority built a foothold in a region sometimes referred to as the northern edge of "Greater Mexico." The book is an academic study grounded in archival and demographic research rather than a general-interest history, and it has since appeared in a revised edition from the same press. Iber's work sits within the broader field of Chicano and borderlands history, attentive to religion, migration, and regional identity. Readers of academic Western and Latino history, or anyone researching religious and ethnic diversity in Mormon communities, are the natural audience for this study.
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💬 What our editors say about Jorge Iber's books
“This scholarly examination provides a rigorous look at Hispanic Mormon identity but may not suit casual readers seeking a narrative-driven spiritual memoir. It is best suited for academics, historians, or those specifically…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Hispanics in the Mormon Zion: 1912-1999 (Revised) Iber, Jorge
“This scholarly account provides a rigorous look at Hispanic-Mormon relations but may not suit readers seeking spiritual memoirs or theological debates. The dense historical analysis might feel dry to those preferring…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999 Iber, Jorge
