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Bad Mexicans - Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Hardcover)
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Bad Mexicans - Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Hardcover)
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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 Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of
journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who organized
thousands of Mexican workers—and American dissidents—to their
cause. Determined to oust Mexico’s dictator, Porfirio DÃaz, 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. The U.S. Departments of War, State, Treasury, and Justice
as well as police, sheriffs, and spies, hunted the magonistas
across the country. Capturing Ricardo Flores Magón was one of the
FBI’s first cases. But the magonistas persevered. They lived in
hiding, wrote in secret code, and launched armed raids into Mexico
until they ignited the world’s first social revolution of the
twentieth century. Taking readers to the frontlines of the
magonista uprising and the counterinsurgency campaign that failed
to stop them, Kelly Lytle Hernández puts the magonista revolt at
the heart of U.S. history. Long ignored by textbooks, the
magonistas threatened to undo the rise of Anglo-American power, on
both sides of the border, and inspired a revolution that gave birth
to the Mexican-American population, making the magonistas’ story
integral to modern American life.
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