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Bad Mexicans : race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands / Kelly Lytle Hernández.
Van Pelt Library F1234 .H6754 2022
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hernández, Kelly Lytle, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Flores Magón, Ricardo, 1873-1922.
- Flores Magón, Ricardo.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Politics and government--20th century.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Political violence--Mexican-American Border Region--History--20th century.
- Political violence.
- Revolutionaries--Mexican-American Border Region--History.
- Revolutionaries.
- Revolutionaries--Mexico--History.
- Mexican Americans--Mexican-American Border Region--Politics and government--20th century.
- Mexican Americans.
- Mexicans--Mexican-American Border Region--Politics and government--20th century.
- Mexicans.
- Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920--Causes.
- Mexico.
- Mexican Americans--Politics and government.
- Mexicans--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- North America--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Genre:
- History.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 372 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who organized thousands of Mexican workers--and American dissidents--to their cause. Determined to oust Mexico's dictator, Porfirio Díaz, who encouraged the plunder of his country by U.S. imperialists such as Guggenheim and Rockefeller, the rebels had to outrun and outsmart the swarm of U. S. authorities vested in protecting the Diaz regime. The U.S. Departments of War, State, Treasury, and Justice as well as police, sheriffs, and spies, hunted the magonistas across the country. Capturing Ricardo Flores Magón was one of the FBI's first cases. But the magonistas persevered. They lived in hiding, wrote in secret code, and launched armed raids into Mexico until they ignited the world's first social revolution of the twentieth century. Taking readers to the frontlines of the magonista uprising and the counterinsurgency campaign that failed to stop them, Kelly Lytle Hernández puts the magonista revolt at the heart of U.S. history. Long ignored by textbooks, the magonistas threatened to undo the rise of Anglo-American power, on both sides of the border, and inspired a revolution that gave birth to the Mexican-American population, making the magonistas' story integral to modern American life."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 EL PORFIRIATO
- ch. 1 If We're Not Careful
- ch. 2 Order and Progress
- ch. 3 Den of Thieves
- ch. 4 We Won't Be Silenced
- ch. 5 The Constitution Is Dead
- pt. 2 WE WILL BE REVOLUTIONARIES
- ch. 6 The Brown Belt
- ch. 7 Send the Secret Police
- ch. 8 We Return to the Fight
- ch. 9 What I Believe
- ch. 10 Cananea
- ch. 11 No Alarm in Mexico
- ch. 12 Send Five Dollars for the Machine
- ch. 13 The Jimenez Raid
- pt. 3 RUNNING DOWN THE REVOLUTIONISTS
- ch. 14 Something Unusual
- ch. 15 The Death of Juan Jose Arredondo
- ch. 16 The Dead Letter Office
- ch. 17 We Knew His Whereabouts Continuously
- ch. 18 The Kidnapping of Manuel Sarabia
- ch. 19 El Alma de Todo
- ch. 20 The United States vs. Ricardo Flores Macon
- pt. 4 ITIERRAY LIBERTAD!
- ch. 21 The People's Cause
- ch. 22 An Attempt to Precipitate a General Disturbance
- ch. 23 The Bureau of Investigation
- ch. 24 A Tremendous Shock to the American People
- ch. 25 The Revolution Begins.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [314]-354) and index.
- American Book Awards - Winner, 2023
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781324004370
- 1324004371
- OCLC:
- 1272856735
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