Introduction: Memory, Violence, and History in the 1919 Canales Investigation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Memory, Violence, and History in the 1919 Canales Investigation 1
6. Yo Soy de Frank Rabbaté 20
7. SECTION I LA MATANZA AND THE CANALES INVESTIGATION IN CONTEXT
8. CHAPTER 1 Refusing to Forget: A Brief History 27
9. CHAPTER 2 Anglos, Mexicans, and Rangers in Texas, 1850–1900 49
10. CHAPTER 3 Texas in Four Parts: The Bordered World of 1919 69
11. CHAPTER 4 La Matanza and the Canales Investigation in Comparative Perspective 92
12. CHAPTER 5 Representation, Refusal, and Remembrance: Lynching and Extralegal Violence in Mexico and the United States, 1890s–1930s 103
13. SECTION II J. T. CANALES, RESISTANCE, AND RESILIENCE
14. CHAPTER 6 The World of Education among Ethnic Mexicans in J. T. Canales’s South Texas 121
15. CHAPTER 7 Humanizing La Raza: The Activist Journalism of the Idar Family in Early Twentieth-Century Texas 143
16. CHAPTER 8 José Tomás Canales and the Paradox of Power 158
17. CHAPTER 9 J. T. Canales’s Contributions in Law, Civil Rights, and Education, 1920–1976 178
18. SECTION III REFLECTIONS ON RECOVERING A HISTORY OF STATE VIOLENCE AND ITS REVERBERATIONS
19. CHAPTER 10 Hidden History: A Journey through the Past, with Hard Lessons for the Present 211
20. CHAPTER 11 Recovering the 1919 Canales Investigation of the Texas Ranger Force: Archival Investigation and Its Consequences, 1975–2010 219
21. CHAPTER 12 The Legacy of La Matanza, Intergenerational Trauma, and the Writing of El Rinche 229
22. CHAPTER 13 Stewarding the Personal Narratives of Painful History 244
23. CHAPTER 14 Reckoning with the Past toward the Here and Now 263
24. Living Witness 279
25. Epilogue 283
26. Contributors 288
27. Index 295