Reverberations of Racial Violence

Critical Reflections on the History of the Border

Reverberations of Racial Violence
Sonia Hernandez, John Moran Gonzalez
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 328pg
15 Jun 2021 US
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9781477322680
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Between 1910 and 1920, thousands of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals were killed along the Texas border. The killers included strangers and neighbors, vigilantes and law enforcement officers-in particular, Texas Rangers. Despite a 1919 investigation of the state-sanctioned violence, no one in authority was ever held responsible. Reverberations of Racial Violence gathers fourteen essays on this dark chapter in American history. Contributors explore the impact of civil rights advocates, such as Jose Tomas Canales, the sole Mexican-American representative in the Texas State Legislature between 1905 and 1921. The investigation he spearheaded emerges as a historical touchstone, one in which witnesses testified in detail to the extrajudicial killings carried out by state agents. Other chapters situate anti-Mexican racism in the context of the era' s rampant and more fully documented violence against African Americans. Contributors also address the roles of women in responding to the violence, as well as the many ways in which the killings have continued to weigh on communities of color in Texas. Taken together, the essays provide an opportunity to move beyond the more standard Black-white paradigm in reflecting on the broad history of American nation-making, the nation' s rampant racial violence, and civil rights activism.
Sonia Hernandez is an associate professor of history and the former director of the Latino/a & Mexican American Studies Program at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Working Women into the Borderlands and the forthcoming For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938. John Moran Gonzalez is the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature and the director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature.
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ISBN-13: 9781477322680
Published: 15 Jun 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 328

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