Reverberations of Racial Violence : : Critical Reflections on the History of the Border /

Reverberations of Racial Violence : : Critical Reflections on the History of the Border / / ed. by Sonia Hernández, John Morán González.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
MitwirkendeR:
Blanton, Carlos K.,
Buenger, Walter L.,
Carmona, Christopher,
Carrigan, William D.,
Castañeda, Antonia I.,
HerausgeberIn:
González, John Morán,
Hernández, Sonia,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (322 p.) :; 14 b&w photos, 5 b&w maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Memory, Violence, and History in the 1919 Canales Investigation
  • Yo Soy de Frank Rabbaté
  • SECTION I LA MATANZA AND THE CANALES INVESTIGATION IN CONTEXT
  • CHAPTER 1 Refusing to Forget: A Brief History
  • CHAPTER 2 Anglos, Mexicans, and Rangers in Texas, 1850–1900
  • CHAPTER 3 Texas in Four Parts: The Bordered World of 1919
  • CHAPTER 4 La Matanza and the Canales Investigation in Comparative Perspective
  • CHAPTER 5 Representation, Refusal, and Remembrance: Lynching and Extralegal Violence in Mexico and the United States, 1890s–1930s
  • SECTION II J. T. CANALES, RESISTANCE, AND RESILIENCE
  • CHAPTER 6 The World of Education among Ethnic Mexicans in J. T. Canales’s South Texas
  • CHAPTER 7 Humanizing La Raza: The Activist Journalism of the Idar Family in Early Twentieth-Century Texas
  • CHAPTER 8 José Tomás Canales and the Paradox of Power
  • CHAPTER 9 J. T. Canales’s Contributions in Law, Civil Rights, and Education, 1920–1976
  • SECTION III REFLECTIONS ON RECOVERING A HISTORY OF STATE VIOLENCE AND ITS REVERBERATIONS
  • CHAPTER 10 Hidden History: A Journey through the Past, with Hard Lessons for the Present
  • CHAPTER 11 Recovering the 1919 Canales Investigation of the Texas Ranger Force: Archival Investigation and Its Consequences, 1975–2010
  • CHAPTER 12 The Legacy of La Matanza, Intergenerational Trauma, and the Writing of El Rinche
  • CHAPTER 13 Stewarding the Personal Narratives of Painful History
  • CHAPTER 14 Reckoning with the Past toward the Here and Now
  • Living Witness
  • Epilogue
  • Contributors
  • Index

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