About the Series  ix

A Note on Terminology  xi

Acknowledgments  xiii

Introduction  1

Part One  

1. A Women with No Names and Many Names: Lynching, Gender, Violence, and Subjectivity  35

2. Webs of Violence: The Camp Grant Indian Massacre, Nation, and Genocidal Alliances  81

3. Spaces of Death: Border (Anthropological) Subjects and the Problem of Racialized and Gendered Violence in Jovita González's Archive  133

Part Two  

Introduction to Part Two  173

4. Transnational Histories of Violence during the Yaqui Indian Wars in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands: The Historiography  177

5. Stripping the Body of Flesh and Memory: Toward a Theory of Yaqui Subjectivity  235

Postscript. On Impunidad: National Renewals of Violence in Greater Mexico and the Americas  289

Notes  297

Bibliography  343

Index  361

“It is impossible, of course, to wrangle such a wide-ranging and intelligent study into a few easy quips, and to attempt to do so would go against the notion that Guidotti-Hernández's examples of borderland violence reveal a complexity in Arizona's and Mexico's culture and history for which many historians, let alone politicians, don't always like to account.”—Tim Hull, Tucson Weekly

“Nevertheless, more work can be done to examine the interdisciplinary problems of investigating intersecting oppressions of race, class, gender, and nationality. Unspeakable Violence is a significant point of departure for this important work.” —Jason Oliver Chang, Hispanic American Historical Review

“[T]hose willing to make their way through this challenging, thought-provoking, and often disturbing work will be rewarded with fresh insights as to the multiple dimensions that violence has long assumed within the borderlands.” —Karl Jacoby, Journal of Arizona History

“Unspeakable Violence will appeal simultaneously to historians of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands and to Chicana/o Studies scholars...[Guidotti-Hernandez’s] work makes an important contribution to transnational analyses of U.S.-Mexico border histories.” —Belinda Linn Rincon, New Mexico Historical Review

“It is impossible, of course, to wrangle such a wide-ranging and intelligent study into a few easy quips, and to attempt to do so would go against the notion that Guidotti-Hernández's examples of borderland violence reveal a complexity in Arizona's and Mexico's culture and history for which many historians, let alone politicians, don't always like to account.”—Tim Hull, Tucson Weekly

“Nevertheless, more work can be done to examine the interdisciplinary problems of investigating intersecting oppressions of race, class, gender, and nationality. Unspeakable Violence is a significant point of departure for this important work.” —Jason Oliver Chang, Hispanic American Historical Review

“[T]hose willing to make their way through this challenging, thought-provoking, and often disturbing work will be rewarded with fresh insights as to the multiple dimensions that violence has long assumed within the borderlands.” —Karl Jacoby, Journal of Arizona History

“Unspeakable Violence will appeal simultaneously to historians of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands and to Chicana/o Studies scholars...[Guidotti-Hernandez’s] work makes an important contribution to transnational analyses of U.S.-Mexico border histories.” —Belinda Linn Rincon, New Mexico Historical Review

“In this exquisite book, Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández examines little-known but critically important episodes of violence in U.S.–Mexican borderlands history. Providing a necessary, long-overdue corrective to Chicana/o and borderlands studies, she suggests that in recounting these events as instances of victimization or acts of resistance, Chicana/o feminist and nationalist scholars create tidy narratives for consolidating Chicana/o nationalist identity. In doing so, they disregard Mexican-American complicity in the very acts of violence they describe.”—María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development

“Unspeakable Violence is an outstanding analysis of violence in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. As a historian, I am most impressed by the care that Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández takes to ground her analysis in solid historical research. What I find so refreshing is her willingness to put forth courageous new arguments about what has been little discussed in Chicana/o studies, Latina/o studies, or ethnic studies more broadly. Rather than taking the standard approach of only analyzing violence when Latinas/os are the victims, Guidotti-Hernández reveals borderlands violence in all of its complexity. This is exceptional scholarship.”—George J. Sánchez, author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945

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