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The Injustice Never Leaves You documents a little known period of state violence in the early twentieth century that targeted ethnic Mexican residents in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. This book takes on the task of explaining why violence occurred, what it meant at the time, and what it means today. It examines a policing regime that killed with impunity between 1910 and 1920. Politicians, historians, the media, and historical commissions of the early twentieth century inscribed a celebratory version of events in newspapers, books, lesson plans, museums, and monuments as a practice of nation building. They disavowed the loss and trauma experienced by residents. The architects of official history and memory, however, did not account for the witnesses and survivors of violence who would pass their own memories from one generation to another. They underestimated residents who would stake a claim in the border region, residents who would share their story with the next generation, residents who would leave records that documented the terror that shaped daily life. More than an act of recovery, this book gives insight into people who lived in a world shaped by violence but who refused to be consumed by it.--

This article discusses new digital research projects by historians, sociologists, and legal scholars that recover previously unrecorded cases of racist violence in the twentieth century and bring them into public view for the first time. New cases are expanding current understandings of the past by documenting lynchings, racially motivated homicides, police killings, church bombings, and nonlethal types of violence that have targeted multiple racial and ethnic groups. Early findings from these projects show that we only have a glimpse into widespread practices of racial terror in the United States. I argue for collecting broader sets of data about victims, surviving relatives, aggressors, and events in the aftermath of violence, because doing so will create new possibilities for studying widespread historical trauma, institutional traces of racist violence, and public understanding of increasingly urgent historical lessons. To keep the humanity of victims central to recovery efforts, I suggest that researchers can learn from community preservation and memorialization practices.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- A Note on Language -- Foreword -- Excerpts -- Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992) -- Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (2000) -- Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (2006) -- Southern Horrors: W omen and the Politics of Rape and Lynching (2009) -- Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I (2009) -- The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (2010) -- Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care (2011) -- Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (2013) -- Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity (2014) -- From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in Amer i ca (2016) -- Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (2016) -- Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (2017) -- The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation (2017) -- The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (2017) -- The Chinese Must Go: Vio lence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America (2018) -- The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti- Mexican Vio lence in Texas (2018) -- The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students (2019) -- Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White (2019) -- Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020) -- Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (2020) -- Notes -- Credits