A savage song: racist violence and armed resistance in the early twentieth-century U.S.-Mexico borderlands

Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series editors' foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The twentieth century dawns in blood -- Imagining slaves and sovereigns -- This land of barbarians -- The Mexican has a country -- Without a tremor -- War to the knife -- Epilogue -- Bibliogra...

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1. Verfasser: Aragon, Margarita (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester [UK] Manchester University Press 2021
Ausgabe:First published
Schriftenreihe:Racism, resistance and social change
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Zusammenfassung:Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series editors' foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The twentieth century dawns in blood -- Imagining slaves and sovereigns -- This land of barbarians -- The Mexican has a country -- Without a tremor -- War to the knife -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
This book examines key moments of violent social unrest in the twentieth century United States. Investigating the centrality of constructions of gender to American racism, it asks how African and Mexican American men, including those in uniform, responded to the violence of racism, and how their resistance, including their claims to manhood and nation, were understood by law enforcement, politicians, and press
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 214 Seiten)
ISBN:9781526121684
1526121689
DOI:10.7765/9781526121684