|
|
Product Description
Winner of the 2018 NACCS Tejas Foco Non-Fiction Book Award
Winner of the 2017 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association
More than just a civil war, the Mexican Revolution in 1910 triggered hostilities along the border between Mexico and the United States. In particular, the decade following the revolution saw a dramatic rise in the lynching of ethnic Mexicans in Texas. This book argues that ethnic and racial tension brought on by the fighting in the borderland made Anglo-Texans feel justified in their violent actions against Mexicans. They were able to use the legal system to their advantage, and their actions often went unpunished. Villanueva's work further differentiates the borderland lynching of ethnic Mexicans from the Southern lynching of African Americans by asserting that the former was about citizenship and sovereignty, as many victims' families had resources to investigate the crimes and thereby place the incidents on an international stage.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement (Haymarket Series on North American Politics and Culture)
- The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
- Revolting New York: How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.)
- The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916
- Forgotten Dead
- Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (The Lamar Series in Western History)
- Mexicanos, Third Edition: A History of Mexicans in the United States
- Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986
- The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
- Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West, First Paperback Edition
*If this is not the "The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Oct 30, 2024 21:48 +08.
