Reverberations of Racial Violence

Critical Reflections on the History of the Border
Herausgeber: Gonzalez, John Moran; Hernandez, Sonia

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Produktbeschreibung

A trenchant collection of essays that details systematic, extralegal killings of Mexicans along the US southern border in the 1910s and explores the role of officially sanctioned violence in the history of US nation-building.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2023
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781477322697
• ISBN-10: 1477322698
• Artikelnr.: 67525111

Autorenporträt

Sonia Hernández 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 Morán González is the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature and a former 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword (Antonia I. Castañeda)
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Memory, Violence, and History in the 1919 Canales
Investigation (Sonia Hernández and John Morán González)
Poem 1. Yo Soy de Frank Rabbaté (Diana Noreen Rivera)
Section I. La Matanza and the Canales Investigation in Context
Chapter 1. Refusing to Forget: A Brief History (Trinidad Gonzales, Benjamin
Heber Johnson, and Monica Muñoz Martinez)
Chapter 2. Anglos, Mexicans, and Rangers in Texas, 1850–1900 (Andrew R.
Graybill)
Chapter 3. Texas in Four Parts: The Bordered World of 1919 (Walter L.
Buenger)
Chapter 4. La Matanza and the Canales Investigation in Comparative
Perspective (William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb)
Chapter 5. Representation, Refusal, and Remembrance: Lynching and
Extralegal Violence in Mexico and the United States, 1890s–1930s (Gema
Kloppe-Santamaría)
Section II. J. T. Canales, Resistance, and Resilience
Chapter 6. The World of Education among Ethnic Mexicans in J. T. Canales’s
South Texas (Philis M. Barragán Goetz and Carlos K. Blanton)
Chapter 7. Humanizing La Raza: The Activist Journalism of the Idar Family
in Early Twentieth-Century Texas (Gabriela González)
Chapter 8. José Tomás Canales and the Paradox of Power (Richard Ribb)
Chapter 9. J. T. Canales’s Contributions in Law, Civil Rights, and
Education, 1920–1976 (Cynthia E. Orozco)
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 (Kirby F. Warnock)
Chapter 11. Recovering the 1919 Canales Investigation of the Texas Ranger
Force: Archival Investigation and Its Consequences, 1975–2010 (James A.
Sandos)
Chapter 12. The Legacy of La Matanza, Intergenerational Trauma, and the
Writing of El Rinche (Christopher Carmona)
Chapter 13. Stewarding the Personal Narratives of Painful History (Margaret
Koch)
Chapter 14. Reckoning with the Past toward the Here and Now (Katherine
Hite)
Poem 2. Living Witness (Nati Román)
Epilogue (John Phillip Santos)
Contributors
Index