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

Published Manchester [UK] : Manchester University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource Series Racism, resistance and social change Racism, resistance and social change. 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 Analysis African Americans Immigration Masculinity Mexican Americans Nation Police brutality Racism Resistance Riots Segregation Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 29, 2021) Subject Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century Mexican Americans -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Race relations Racism Mexican Americans -- Social conditions African Americans -- Social conditions SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- 20th century Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781526121684 1526121689 9781526121691 1526121697

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