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The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas Audiobook, by Monica Muñoz Martinez Play Audiobook Sample

The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas Audiobook

The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas Audiobook, by Monica Muñoz Martinez Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Kyla Garcia Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 9.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 7.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: December 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781541435803

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

20

Longest Chapter Length:

59:55 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

20:53 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

41:49 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

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Publisher Description

Between 1910 and 1920, vigilantes and law enforcement—including the renowned Texas Rangers—killed Mexican residents with impunity. The full extent of the violence was known only to the relatives of the victims.

Operating in remote rural areas enabled the perpetrators to do their worst: hanging, shooting, burning, and beating victims to death without scrutiny. Families scoured the brush to retrieve the bodies of loved ones. Survivors suffered segregation and fierce intimidation, and yet fought back. They confronted assailants in court, worked with Mexican diplomats to investigate the crimes, pressured local police to arrest the perpetrators, spoke to journalists, and petitioned politicians for change.

Martinez reconstructs this history from institutional and private archives and oral histories, to show how the horror of anti-Mexican violence lingered within communities for generations, compounding injustice by inflicting further pain and loss. Yet its memorialization provided victims with an important means of redress, undermining official narratives that sought to whitewash these atrocities. The Injustice Never Leaves You offers an invaluable account of why these incidents happened, what they meant at the time, and how a determined community ensured that the victims were not forgotten.

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About Kyla Garcia

Kyla Garcia is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. Born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, she discovered acting at the age of eight when she played Lady Macbeth in a children’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. She made her off-Broadway debut at fifteen when she played Dorothy in Oz: A Twisted Musical. Eleven years after she discovered her passion for acting, she would go on to play Lady Macbeth once again in London at the Globe Theatre, where she studied Shakespeare during her third year at Mason Gross School of the Arts. She received her BFA in acting from Rutgers University.