Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Webb, Clive, 1970-
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| ISBN: | 9780199717705
0199717702
9780199911806
0199911800
9780195320350
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed June 15, 2020).
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| Summary: | Mob violence in the United States is usually associated with the southern lynch mobs who terrorized African Americans during the Jim Crow era. In Forgotten Dead, William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb uncover a comparatively neglected chapter in the story of American racial violence, the lynching of persons of Mexican origin or descent. Over eight decades lynch mobs murdered hundreds of Mexicans, mostly in the American Southwest. Racial prejudice, a lack of respect for local courts, and economic competition all fueled the actions of the mob. Sometimes ordinary citizens committed these acts because.
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| Other form: | Print version: Carrigan, William D., 1970- Forgotten dead. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013] 9780195320350
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