Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries

by Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández

Book Overview

Unspeakable Violence addresses the epistemic and physical violence inflicted on racialized and gendered subjects in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Arguing that this violence was fundamental to U.S., Mexican, and Chicana/o nationalisms, Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández examines the lynching of a Mexican woman in California in 1851, the Camp Grant Indian Massacre of 1871, the racism evident in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822350750
• ISBN13: 9780822350750
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"