Forgotten dead : mob violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928

Forgotten dead : mob violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928 / William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb.

Mob violence in the United States is usually associated with the southern lynch mobs who terrorized African Americans during the Jim Crow era. In Forgotten Dead, William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb uncover a comparatively neglected chapter in the story of American racial violence, the lynching of per...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carrigan, William D., 1970-
Other Authors: Webb, Clive, 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
1800-1999
Mexican Americans > Violence against > History > 19th century.
Mexican Americans > Violence against > History > 20th century.
Mobs > United States > History > 19th century.
Mobs > United States > History > 20th century.
Lynching > United States > History > 19th century.
Lynching > United States > History > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Lynching
Mobs
Race relations
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
United States
History
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Manifest Destiny and mob violence against Mexicans
  • 2. Judge Lynch on the border
  • 3. Mexican resistance to mob violence
  • 4. Diplomatic protest and the decline of mob violence
  • Conclusion : Remembering the Forgotten dead
  • Appendix A. Confirmed cases of mob violence against persons of Mexican origin and descent in the United States, 1848-1928
  • Appendix B. Unconfirmed cases of mob violence against persons of Mexican origin and descent in the United States, 1848-1928.

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