Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction “Rebel historian” Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands.
Work Information
Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction “Rebel historian” Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S.
Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction “Rebel historian” Kelly Lytle Hernández 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 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 Díaz, 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.
Book Information
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Inc
- Published
- 2022-05-10
- Pages
- 372 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16 x 3.3 x 23.88 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781324004370
- ISBN-10
- 1324004371
- Price
- 3000 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/History/Americas/United States/20th Century
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Kelly Lytle Hernández is the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History at UCLA. She is the 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and the author of several award-winning books discussing border enforcement, policing, and incarceration. She lives in Los Angeles.
Reviews
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👍👍 Awesome!! Great history of the PLM and the actors and conditions that staged the Mexican Revolution. Detailed descriptions of the first raids by PLM fighters are intense! Thank you!
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I got it today and i am diving deep into the book!
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Really tells the history of pre revolution to the Diaz government.
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Expone una parte de la revolución que no nos enseñan en las escuelas desde un frente que no se menciona mucho
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History of Mexico is not something taught in schools and in Europe. This book is a good introduction into one episode of it. Reading this in 2025 it is fascinating to find many parallels with the current political situation. Privatize the profits and nationalize the expenses was powerful then and now has its revival. Policies of Trump, racism, unlawful seizure of immigrants follows long standing US tradition. One thing I did not like is the phrase US imperialism. I now understand what Latin America means by that, but its meaning is different in Europe. Both US imperialism and Anglo-Saxon rule are the terms which are used by Russian propaganda to whitewash Russian policies which are much worse compared to the ones perpetrated by US and their allies in the countries US “empire” was projected upon. So for any Latin American readers please read up on Russian history the way I am reading up on yours. Or you are risking the fate of Magon, carrying the flag of a needed revolution first and then going to obscurity with the wild unimplementable ideas.