Williamsburg Regional Library

Bad Mexicans, race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands, Kelly Lytle Hernández

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [314]-354) and index

contains biographical information

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non fiction

Bad Mexicans

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Kelly Lytle Hernández

race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands

"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernandez reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magon, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers who organized thousands of Mexican workers - and American dissidents - to their cause. Determined to oust Mexico's dictator, Porfirio Diaz, who encouraged the plunder of his country by U.S. imperialists such as Guggenheim and Rockefeller, the rebels had to outrun and outsmart the swarm of U. S. authorities vested in protecting the Diaz regime. Taking readers to the frontlines of the magonista uprising and the counterinsurgency campaign that failed to stop them, Kelly Lytle Hernandez puts the magonista revolt at the heart of U.S. history

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Race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands