The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas - Paperback
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Availability:In StockPublish date:2020-04-14Pages:400
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674244825ISBN-10:674244826UPC:9780674244825Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:State & Local, 20th Century, AmericanSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC0VSHDCMX
Winner of the Caughey Western History Prize
Winner of the Robert G. Athearn Award
Winner of the Lawrence W. Levine Award
Winner of the TCU Texas Book Award
Winner of the NACCS Tejas Foco Nonfiction Book Award
Winner of the Mar a Elena Mart nez Prize
Frederick Jackson Turner Award Finalist
--Texas Monthly Between 1910 and 1920, self-appointed protectors of the Texas-Mexico border--including members of the famed Texas Rangers--murdered hundreds of ethnic Mexicans living in Texas, many of whom were American citizens. Operating in remote rural areas, officers and vigilantes knew they could hang, shoot, burn, and beat victims to death without scrutiny. A culture of impunity prevailed. The abuses were so pervasive that in 1919 the Texas legislature investigated the charges and uncovered a clear pattern of state crime. Records of the proceedings were soon filed away as the Ranger myth flourished. A groundbreaking work of historical reconstruction, The Injustice Never Leaves You has upended Texas's sense of its own history. A timely reminder of the dark side of American justice, it is a riveting story of race, power, and prejudice on the border. "It's an apt moment for this book's hard lessons...to go mainstream."
--Texas Observer "A reminder that government brutality on the border is nothing new."
--Los Angeles Review of Books
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674244825ISBN-10:674244826UPC:9780674244825Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:State & Local, 20th Century, AmericanSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC0VSHDCMX
Martinez, Monica Mu: - Monica Muñoz Martinez is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin. She is cofounder of the nonprofit organization Refusing to Forget, which calls for a public reckoning with racial violence in Texas. In addition to winning six book prizes, The Injustice Never Leaves You in 2019 was named a Five Books Best Book on White Supremacy and Texas Observer Best Texas Book of the Decade.
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