Bad Mexicans : Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Kelly Lytle Hernǹdez.
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- viii, 372 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
We stand between -- Introduction. El Porfiriato -- Part 1. If were not careful -- Chapter 1. Order and progress -- Chapter 2. Den of thieves -- Chapter 3. We wont be silenced -- Chapter 4. The Constitution is dead -- Chapter 5. We Will Be Revolutionaries -- Part 2. The brown belt -- Chapter 6. Send the secret police -- Chapter 7. We return to the fight -- Chapter 8. What I believe -- Chapter 9. Cananea -- Chapter 10. No alarm in Mexico -- Chapter 11. Send five dollars for the machine -- Chapter 12. The Jimňez Raid -- Chapter 13. Running Down the Revolutionists -- Part 3. Something unusual -- Chapter 14. The death of Juan Jos ̌Arredondo -- Chapter 15. The dead letter office -- Chapter 16. We knew his whereabouts continuously -- Chapter 17. The kidnapping of Manuel Sarabia -- Chapter 18. El alma de todo -- Chapter 19. The United States vs. Ricardo Flores Magn̤ -- Chapter 20. ŁTierra y Libertad! -- Part 4. The peoples cause -- Chapter 21. An attempt to precipitate a general disturbance -- Chapter 22. The Bureau of Investigation -- Chapter 23. A tremendous shock to the American people -- Chapter 24. The revolution begins -- Chapter 25. Always a rebel -- Conclusion. Rebel pseudonyms and code names. Appendix.
"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernǹdez 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 Magn̤, 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 Mexicos dictator, Porfirio Da̕z, 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 Magn̤ was one of the FBIs first cases. But the magonistas persevered. They lived in hiding, wrote in secret code, and launched armed raids into Mexico until they ignited the worlds 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 Hernǹdez 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.
9781324004370 1324004371 9781324064411 1324064412
Flores Magn̤, Ricardo, 1873-1922.
Political violence--Mexican-American Border Region--History--20th century. Revolutionaries--Mexican-American Border Region--History. --Mexico--History. --Mexico--Biography. Mexican Americans--Mexican-American Border Region--Politics and government--20th century. Mexicans--Mexican-American Border Region--Politics and government--20th century.
Mexican-American Border Region--Politics and government--20th century. Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920--Causes.