ISBN: 9780674976436
Editorial: Harvard
Autor: Martinez, Associate Professor of History Monica Muñoz
Año de edición: 2018
N° Paginas: 400
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Críticas An immensely powerful, haunting, and heartfelt book. It is a genuine page-turner that unflinchingly documents the history of violence and terror on the Texas-Mexico border...State racial terror and vigilantism worked hand in hand to establish a blueprint for sanctioned abuse and impunity.--Ulices Piña "Latin American Research Review"The Injustice Never Leaves You serves as a long-overdue reality check on the Texas Rangers' legacy. Martinez traces the group's history from its relatively humble beginnings in the 1830s--as a small band of armed men organized by Stephen F. Austin to protect settlers--to what it had become by the late 19th century: a state-sponsored terror squad directed to secure white racial hegemony along the Texas-Mexico border...As a renewed militarization of the border takes place, along with new state-sponsored crimes against migrants--see the Trump administration's cruel family separation policies, for one--it's an apt moment for this book's hard lessons of non-textbook Texas history to go mainstream.--Michael Sandlin "Texas Observer" (9/4/2018 12:00:00 AM)A groundbreaking work that lays bare the horrific reign of terror inflicted on innocent Tejanos, mostly in the Valley, by the Texas Rangers and affiliated mobs during the 1910s.-- "Texas Observer" (12/20/2019 12:00:00 AM)A page-turner...Haunting...Martinez has written a book that bravely and convincingly urges us to think differently about Texas's past. But she has also written a book that tells us something about the future we are creating right now.-- "Texas Monthly" (10/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)Absolutely amazing...A groundbreaking book that sheds light on the anti-Mexican violence along the Texas-Mexico border in the early part of the 20th century...No longer can the history of murder at the hands of the Texas Rangers and other law enforcement agencies be hidden. This book will prove to be the preeminent book that all others will consult when researching this period of history. Martinez's scholarship is truly unparalleled. This one is an absolute must-read.--Romeo Rosales "Book Riot" (2/18/2020 12:00:00 AM)In 1915 and 1916, a time of revolutionary upheaval in Mexico, when refugees were streaming across the border, Texas Rangers and American soldiers declared open season on ethnic Mexicans in a time known as the 'bandit wars.' ...Martinez explores a terrible history that reverberates today not only because of family memory and local curation...but also because so many of its particulars seem taken from current headlines as refugees continue to die in the desert... Timely and of considerable interest to students of borderlands history as well as of sociology.-- "Kirkus Reviews" (7/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)One of Martinez's most important contributions is to remind us that violence against nonwhites was not simply a matter of private citizens going out of control for private reasons...She links the experiences of Mexican-Americans to those of African-Americans, understanding that enforcing white racial supremacy, through violence and other means--disfranchisement and Jim Crow--goes to the very heart of the story of Texas.--Annette Gordon-Reed "New York Review of Books" (10/24/2019 12:00:00 AM)Serves as a reminder that government brutality on the border is nothing new. In fact, it was the heart of the Texas Rangers' mission a century ago.--Lily Meyer "Los Angeles Review of Books" (10/31/2018 12:00:00 AM)This is the book every Texan should read before casting their votes on border issues. It's a sad, deeply disturbing account of the terrible atrocities and violence committed by Texas Rangers, law enforcement, and vigilantes against Tejanos and Mexicans in parts of rural Texas a little more than 100 years ago. This book should be standard curriculum in public schools and is a testament to the untold stories of so many who died and endured hardships and anti-Mexican violence at the hands of the government.-- "Dallas Observer" (3/17/2020 12:00:00 AM)A maste
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Martinez, Associate Professor of History Monica Muñoz
- Editorial: Harvard
- N° Paginas: 400
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
