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Author:

Aragon, Margarita (Sociologist), author.

Title:

A savage song : racist violence and armed resistance in the early twentieth-century U.S.-Mexico borderlands / Margarita Aragon.

Publisher:

Manchester University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

x, 214 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Racism--United States--History--20th century.
United States--Race relations--20th century.
African Americans--United States--Social conditions--20th century.
Mexican Americans--United States--Social conditions--20th century.
Race relations.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Mexican Americans--Social conditions.
Racism.
United States.
1900-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-210) and index.

Contents:

Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series editors' foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The twentieth century dawns in blood -- Imagining slaves and sovereigns -- This land of barbarians -- The Mexican has a country -- Without a tremor -- War to the knife -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index

Summary:

This book examines key moments of violent social unrest in the twentieth century United States. Investigating the centrality of constructions of gender to American racism, it asks how African and Mexican American men, including those in uniform, responded to the violence of racism, and how their resistance, including their claims to manhood and nation, were understood by law enforcement, politicians, and press.

Series:

Racism, resistance and social change

ISBN:

9781526121677
1526121670

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1225287279

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)