The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas

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A moving account of slightly-known period of state-sponsored racial terror inflicted on ethnic Mexicans within the Texas-Mexico borderlands.

Between 1910 and 1920, vigilantes and law enforcement―including the renowned Texas Rangers―killed Mexican residents with impunity. The full extent of the violence was once known only to the relatives of the sufferers. Monica Muñoz Martinez turns to the keepers of this history to tell this riveting and disturbing untold story.

Operating in remote rural areas enabled the perpetrators to do their worst: hanging, shooting, burning, and beating sufferers to death without scrutiny. Families scoured the brush to retrieve the bodies of family members. Survivors suffered segregation and fierce intimidation, and yet fought back. They confronted assailants in court, worked with Mexican diplomats to investigate the crimes, pressured local police to arrest the perpetrators, spoke to journalists, and petitioned politicians for change.

Martinez reconstructs this history from institutional and private archives and oral histories, to turn how the horror of anti-Mexican violence lingered within communities for generations, compounding injustice by inflicting further pain and loss. Yet its memorialization provided sufferers with the most important means of redress, undermining official narratives that sought to whitewash these atrocities. The Injustice Never Leaves You offers an invaluable account of why these incidents happened, what they meant on the time, and how a made up our minds community ensured that the sufferers weren’t forgotten.

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