Title Reverberations of racial violence : critical reflections on the history of the border / edited by Sonia Hernández and John Morán González

Edition First edition Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture. Contents Foreword / Antonia I. Castañeda -- 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 -- Refusing to forget: a brief history / Trinidad Gonzales, Benjamin Heber Johnson, and Monica Muñoz Martinez -- Anglos, Mexicans, and Rangers in Texas, 1850-1900 / Andrew R. Graybill -- Texas in four parts: the bordered world of 1919 / Walter L. Buenger -- La Matanza and the Canales investigation in comparative perspective / William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb -- 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 -- The world of education among ethnic Mexicans in J. T. Canales's South Texas / Philis M. Barragán Goetz and Carlos K. Blanton -- Humanizing La Raza: the activist journalism of the Idar family in early twentieth-century Texas / Gabriela González -- José Tomás Canales and the paradox of power / Richard Ribb -- 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 -- Hidden history: a journey through the past, with hard lessons for the present / Kirby F. Warnock -- Recovering the 1919 Canales investigation of the Texas Ranger Force: archival investigation and its consequences, 1975-2010 / James A. Sandos -- The legacy of La Matanza, intergenerational trauma, and the writing of El Rinche / Christopher Carmona -- Stewarding the personal narratives of painful history / Margaret Koch -- Reckoning with the past toward the here and now / Katherine Hite -- Poem 2. Living witness / Nati Román -- Epilogue / John Phillip Santos Summary "The edited collection examines violence against Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Texas between 1910 and 1920, perpetrated by strangers, neighbors, vigilantes, and especially law enforcement officers. It also chronicles the efforts of José Tomas Canales, who called for an investigation into the violence committed by Texas Rangers, inspiring a new era of Mexican-American civil rights activism in Texas"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Canales, J. T. (José Tomás), 1877-1976. Canales, J. T. (José Tomás), 1877-1976 Texas Rangers -- History -- 20th century Texas Rangers Mexicans -- Violence against -- Texas -- History -- 20th century Mexican Americans -- Violence against -- Texas -- History -- 20th century Mexican Americans -- Political activity -- Texas -- History -- 20th century Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies. History / United States / 20th Century. Mexican Americans -- Political activity Texas Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Hernández, Sonia, 1976- editor. González, John Morán, editor. Container of (work): Graybill, Andrew R., 1971- Anglos, Mexicans, and Rangers in Texas, 1850-1900 ISBN 9781477322703 1477322701

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