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Recuperating Histories of Violence in the Americas: Vernacular History-Making on the US–Mexico Border

Martinez, Monica Muñoz·2014·American Quarterly
DOI 10.1353/aq.2014.0040
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This article examines the 1915 double murder of Jesus Bazán and Antonio Longoria north of the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo County, Texas, and shows that this event is emblematic of the wider use of violence in subject formation and state-building projects in the Americas. This article describes a state-sanctioned period of racial terror and the culture of impunity in which state agents abused their authority and denied protection to ethnic Mexicans within their jurisdiction. This period of anti-Mexican violence continues to be memorialized a century later. Generational memories of this double murder—and the vernacular histories created by local residents in Texas—continue to challenge historical narratives that disavow generational loss and obscure roots of state violence. These histories confront historical narratives that justify the violence inherent in nation-building practices and make transparent the longer legacies of histories of border policing.

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Authors
Martinez, M. M.
Corresponding author
Martinez, Monica Muñoz
Venue
American Quarterly
Publisher
Project MUSE
Published
2014-09
Volume
66
Issue
3
Pages
661-689
ISSN
  • 0003-0678 (ISSN-L)
  • 1080-6490
DOI
10.1353/aq.2014.0040
OpenAlex
W2114703752
Cited by
33
References
59
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 12 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1
FWCI
0.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • American Quarterly (publishedVersion)
  • Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Memory, violence, and history
  • Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Latin American and Latino Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
Keywords
racial terror, culture of impunity, state violence, vernacular history, collective memory, commemoration, U.S.-Mexico border, border policing, nation-building, Hidalgo County, Texas, subjectivation, state building

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Martinez, M. M. (2014). Recuperating Histories of Violence in the Americas: Vernacular History-Making on the US–Mexico Border. American Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2014.0040