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

401 Pages·2018·21.55 MB·English

by  Monica Muñoz Martinez

The Injustice
Never
Leaves You

The Injustice
Never
Leaves You
Anti- Mexican Vio lence in Texas
Monica Muñoz Martinez
Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts, and London, England 2018
Copyright © 2018 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of Amer i ca
First printing
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Martinez, Monica Muñoz, 1984– author.
Title: The injustice never leaves you : anti- Mexican vio lence in Texas /
Monica Muñoz Martinez.
Description: Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts : Harvard University Press, 2018. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018002094 | ISBN 9780674976436 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Mexicans— Vio lence against— Texas— History—20th  century. |
Mexicans— Civil rights— Texas— History—20th  century. | Mexican- American
Border Region— History—20th  century. | State- sponsored terrorism— Texas—
History—20th  century. | Justice— History—20th  century.
Classification: LCC F395.M5 M375 2018 | DDC 323.1168/720764— dc23
LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2018002094
Cover design: Tim Jones
Cover Photo: Captured insurrectos (c. 1910) by Otis A. Aultman, Courtesy of the El
Paso Public Library.
For my parents and my sister
In loving memory of my grandparents

Contents
Introduction 1
1 Divine Retribution 30
2 From Silence 76
3 Denial of Justice 120
4 Cultures of Vio lence 172
5 Idols 227
6 Reckoning with Vio lence 264
Epilogue 293
Notes 303
Acknowl edgments 363
Index 371

The Injustice
Never
Leaves You