William D. Carrigan (Rowan University Professor of History), Clive Webb (University of Sus Professor of Modern American History

Forgotten Dead

Mob Violence Against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928

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Produktbeschreibung

Forgotten Dead uncovers a neglected chapter in the story of American racial violence, the first comprehensive study of lynching of hundreds of persons of Mexican origin or descent.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780190610692
• ISBN-10: 0190610697
• Artikelnr.: 47868793

Autorenporträt

William D. Carrigan is Professor of History at Rowan University and the author of The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916, the editor of Lynching Reconsidered: New Directions in the Study of Mob Violence, and the co-editor of Swift to Wrath: Lynching in Global Historical Perspective. Clive Webb is Professor of Modern American History at the University of Sussex, the author of Fight against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights and Rabble Rousers: The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era, and the editor of Massive Resistance: Southern Opposition of the Second Reconstruction.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Note on Terms
* Introduction
* 1. Manifest Destiny and Mob Violence against Mexicans
* 2. Judge Lynch on the Border
* 3. Mexican Resistance to Mob Violence
* 4. Diplomatic Protest and the Decline of Mob Violence
* Conclusion: Remembering the Forgotten Dead
* Appendix A: Confirmed Cases of Mob Violence against Persons of
Mexican Origin and Descent in the United States, 1848-1928
* Appendix B: Unconfirmed Cases of Mob Violence against Persons of
Mexican Origin and Descent in the United States, 1848-1928
* Notes
* Index