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Summary:

The Injustice Never Leaves You documents a little known period of state violence in the early twentieth century that targeted ethnic Mexican residents in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. This book takes on the task of explaining why violence occurred, what it meant at the time, and what it means today. It examines a policing regime that killed with impunity between 1910 and 1920. Politicians, historians, the media, and historical commissions of the early twentieth century inscribed a celebratory version of events in newspapers, books, lesson plans, museums, and monuments as a practice of nation building. They disavowed the loss and trauma experienced by residents. The architects of official history and memory, however, did not account for the witnesses and survivors of violence who would pass their own memories from one generation to another. They underestimated residents who would stake a claim in the border region, residents who would share their story with the next generation, residents who would leave records that documented the terror that shaped daily life. More than an act of recovery, this book gives insight into people who lived in a world shaped by violence but who refused to be consumed by it.-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Divine retribution
• From silence
• Denial of justice
• Cultures of violence
• Idols
• Reckoning.

Author/Creator:

Martinez, Monica Muñoz, 1984- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The injustice never leaves you: anti-Mexican violence in Texas [by Martinez, M.M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Injustice never leaves you [by Martinez, M.M.] (ISBN 9780674976436; LCCN 2018002094; OCLC Number 1020313014)

Subjects:

Mexicans — Violence against — Texas — History — 20th century

Mexicans — Civil rights — Texas — History — 20th century

Mexican-American Border Region — History — 20th century

State-sponsored terrorism — Texas — History — 20th century

Justice — History — 20th century

1900-1999

Mexicans — Civil rights

State-sponsored terrorism

Justice

Mexicans

Texas

Mexico

North America — Mexican-American Border Region

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 pages) : illustrations, map

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

F395.M5 M375 2018eb

ISBNs:

9780674989405 (electronic bk.)
0674989406 (electronic bk.)
9780674976436 [Invalid]
0674976436 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1048608942