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No Otro Lado posits that the U.S. and Mexico are one country with a border that is used to justify a caste system.
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This interlude is essentially an erasure poem of academic texts that examine the history of the lynchings of Mexicans in the United States.
lyrics
The number of Mexicans executed by vigilantes compels us to reconsider the geography of mob violence as a whole. A standard lynching map of the United States depicts mob violence as being predominantly a phenomenon of the South. But it is a much more common occurrence than has been previously understood.
September 17th, 1915, Juan Rodriquez, an alleged outlaw, was dragged with wire around his neck and then shot.
November 9th, 1894, in Louisiana, Charlie Williams was taken from jail by an infuriated crowd who shot the "half-breed Mexican."
On June 10th, 1881, Narcisco Montoya had his head pounded and body hanged inside a court room in New Mexico.
May 1st, 1880, Ramirez, family of three, was burned for witchcraft in Texas.
In late March 1855, four unknown Mexicans were taken from jail and hanged for robbing an Anglo clerk and abusing his wife.
May 11th, 1856, three different unknown Mexicans were taken from jail and hanged on "rather slight proof" in Monterrey, California.
In late October of 1856, Jose Castro was hanged by Matt Targe and his vigilantes after being forcibly removed from Mexicans who were trying to protect him.
In February 1857, a man known only as "Mexican Joe" was hanged and decapitated near El Monte, California.
May 17th, 1874, Tomas Valencia was taken from his home with a rope around his neck and dragged until his life was extinct.
In April 1875, an unknown Mexican man was killed and fed to hogs by vigilantes for horse theft near Corpus Cristi, Texas.
July 5th, 1851, Josefa Segura was hanged before a crowd of 2,000 miners.
June, 1851, Antonio Cruz and Patricio...
Ours is not a dead inheritance.
I do not speak of death.
I speak of a history that lives
in each of us,
that lives in the land.
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