Episode 146: Diverse Voices Book Review - Sonia Hernández and John Morán González Discuss Violence on US-Mexico Border In Early 1900s
My guests are Sonia Hernández and John Morán González, co-editors of REVERBERATIONS OF RACIAL VIOLENCE: Critical Reflections on the History of the Border.
REVERBERATIONS OF RACIAL VIOLENCE is a collection of essays that detail systematic, extralegal killings of Mexicans along the US Mexican borderlands and particularly in South Texas from 1910-1919. As Hernandez and González write in the introduction the essays place the traumatic events north of the Rio Grande into a trans border history to jumpstart a conversation about state violence, white supremacy, and the resilience of communities of…
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