“This book is a must-read for scholars and students of borderlands violence in the early twentieth century.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly
“Villanueva’s work fills a gap in unapologetically Mexican American and borderlands scholarship.”—Southern Spaces
“A better understanding of the history of violence against Mexican immigrants and refugees as well as American citizens of Mexican descent could not be more timely.”—H-Law
“Reminds readers of the interesting and divergent pathways of vigilantism, retribution, sovereignty, and citizenship present along the border.”—New Mexico Historical Review
“Add[s] new insight to the encompassing nature of lynch law and mob violence.”—The American Historical Review
“This deeply researched history of anti-Mexican prejudice and violence in the Texas borderlands in the era of the Mexican Revolution and World War I offers valuable insight into anti-Mexican lynching and the responses of persons of Mexican descent in the United States.”—Michael J. Pfeifer, author of The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching
“Offers fresh insight into how populist US Americans justified both the exclusion and lynching of ethnic Mexicans in South Texas during the decade of the Mexican Revolution. Uncovers personal narratives and newspaper accounts of unjustified racial violence against Mexicans and Tejanos on the Texas-Mexico border, leading readers to reevaluate dominant versions of Texas history and to understand the importance of what it means to be ‘Mexican’ in the United States.”—John E. Dean, author of How Myth Became History: Texas Exceptionalism in the Borderlands
