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Forgotten Dead : Mob Violence Against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928
ISBN: 9780195320350 | 0195320352
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/21/2013
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Mob violence in the United States is usually associated with the southern lynch mobs who terrorized African Americans during the Jim Crow era. This book uncovers what is by contrast a neglected chapter in the story of American racial violence, the lynching of persons of Mexican origin or descent. Over eight decades lynch mobs murdered hundreds of Mexicans, mostly in the American Southwest. Racial prejudice, a lack of respect for local courts, and economic competition all fueled the actions of the mob. Sometimes it was ordinary citizens who com... MORE
William D. Carrigan is Professor of History, Rowan University, and author of The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916
Clive Webb is Professor of Modern American History, University of Sussex. He is the author of Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights and editor of Massive Resistance.
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