https://www.kudzu.ecdsomeka.org/files/original/c4dc308fbfd1baf5eee22ee04e52eb7e.png 69f011b2bacf0081f64f402e8075bdb5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Histories of Racial Violence Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Recuperating Histories of Violence in the Americas: Vernacular History-Making on the US-Mexico Border" Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Monica Muñoz Martinez, "<span>Recuperating Histories of Violence in the Americas: Vernacular History-Making on the US-Mexico Border</span>" <em>American Quarterly</em>, Vol. 66, No. 3, Special Issue: Las Américas Quarterly (September 2014): pp. 661-689 Description An account of the resource In this article Monica Martinez examines racial violence against ethnic Mexicans in early 20th-century Texas, specifically the 1915 murder of Jesús Bazán and Antonio Longoria. The piece explores how local and family narratives challenge official histories that often erased or justified such violence. Martinez highlights how historical memory, storytelling, and activism play a role in confronting past injustices and shaping public understanding of state-sanctioned racial terror. While the state-backed violence against Mexican Americans and Mexican migrants living around the Texas border wasn't explicitly encouraged by the Texas Rangers, the lack of guardrails and legal consequences against the Rangers gave the organization free-range to do and act like they pleased. The low number of documented sources reporting on the murders of Mexicans at the time is similar to other cases of state-sanctioned violence toward black Americans around Texas and other states in the US south.