The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas By Monica Munoz Martinez (review)

Authors

Brent M. S. Campney, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

Fall 2019

Abstract

In The Injustice Never Leaves You, Monica Munoz Martinez provides an outstanding analysis of the racist violence that Anglos used to control ethnic Mexicans in Texas. Building on the work of other historians, including Benjamin Johnson, Nicholas Villanueva, William Carrigan, and Clive Webb, she discusses, for instance, the burning of Antonio Rodrıguez by a mob in Rocksprings in 1910 and the rampage by Anglo lynch mobs and Texas Rangers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in 1915, a massacre that claimed the lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of ethnic Mexicans.

Comments

© 2019, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association. Original published version available at https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2019.88.4.731

Recommended Citation

Brent M. S. Campney; Review: The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas by Monica Muñoz Martinez. Pacific Historical Review 1 November 2019; 88 (4): 731–732. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2019.88.4.731

First Page

731

Last Page

732

Publication Title

Pacific Historical Review

DOI

10.1525/phr.2019.88.4.731