Abstract

The Christmas story has been retold so often, through sermons, church plays, popular literature, and movies, that a false memory has been constructed. This memory romanticizes the birth of Jesus, thus masking the radical political implications of the event. All too often, we read the Gospels with privileged eyes, thus transforming the Christmas story into a hopeful salvific tale, if not legend. But the Jesús narratives can be read as anti-colonial literature about a native resident living under an invading colonial foreign power. This article reads the familiar story through the eyes of marginalized Latinxs (Latinos/as), who live under the consequences of colonization.

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