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“Rousers of the Rabble” in the New Mexico Land Grant War: La Alianza Federal De Mercedes and the Violence of the State.
- Source :
- Antipode; Sep2008, Vol. 40 Issue 4, p561-583, 23p, 2 Diagrams
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- This paper examines the patterns of state-sponsored and state-tolerated violence directed at a social movement organization in New Mexico known as La Alianza Federal de Mercedes during the 1960s and 1970s. Beginning in the 1960s, Alianza mobilized a broad-based movement of Chicano activists and Hispano land grant communities to advocate the return of lands they claimed had been stolen following the Mexican American War of 1846–1848. As a result, its leaders and many of its members became targets of law enforcement surveillance programs and counterintelligence operations. In this paper I examine the patterns of surveillance and physical violence directed at Alianza members. Confronted by Alianza's challenge to racial inequality and economic injustice, the state construed Alianza as a generalized, and racialized, threat to social order that required in response the use of coercive control and physical violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00664812
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Antipode
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 34050230
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2008.00624.x