The Forgotten Dead Summary

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Forgotten Dead Review

The Forgotten Dead documents the brutal mob violence of Mexican Americans in the southwest. William Carrigan and Clive Webb documented the ways in which these instances of violence were scarcely reported and rarely reported on. They stated how the violence of lynching is too specific and mob violence is a much more accurate way to describe the violence that racial and ethnic minorities experienced. They also made the point to explore the difference between the experiences that ethnic and racial individuals experienced mob violence. The authors also explored how the elite would so easily invoke their Spanish heritage to protect themselves from other white people. Which me raises the question of how light skinned they were to be able to do such a thing. Carrigan and Webb also examined how the differing vultures between Anglos and Mexican people and how that played a part in the process of dehumanizing Latin people to justify the instance violence they experienced. The way Anglo invaders used these methods
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Where a group of criminals stole from a hotel and local store and killed six people in their spree. This act if violence spurred mob to round up and prisoned thirty six while Anglos decided what to do with them. Three of the men were found guilty, but the crowd was not satisfied. Ultimately Mexican was exiled and given twenty four hours to vacate. Anglos banned Mexicans form the town with other towns, taking this example. Anglos would take land from those exiled and burned what they did not want. Over a week Mexicans were still being killed for revenge of the Rancheria murders. Anglos used any tactic and excuse to exterminate people that they saw standing in their way of riches and power. They full heartily believed (some still do) that this land was theirs and they had every right to it is going so far as to call it Manifest