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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

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A moving account of a little-known period of state-sponsored racial terror inflicted on ethnic Mexicans in 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 viol
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