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Book Review

Comparative/World

Elliot Young. Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border. (American Encounters/Global Interactions.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2004. Pp. xv, 407. Cloth $84.95, paper $23.95.
Elliott Young has written several articles dealing with race, ethnicity, and revolution on the Texas-Mexico border. In this book-length work, he provides a transnational examination of a little-studied insurrection that was both a revolt against the long-running dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz of Mexico and a reaction by Mexicans and Mexican Americans against the growing Anglo domination of South Texas. Catarino Garza's rebellion in 1891 also represented an effort by residents of the borderlands to resist the encroachment of the central power of both the U.S. and Mexican governments.	1
Garza and his revolt demonstrated the permeability of the border. Born in Mexico, Garza moved to Brownsville, Texas in 1877 at the age of eighteen. He soon assumed the role of crusading journalist and political activist, criticizing the Díaz dictatorship in Mexico and defending Mexicans and Mexican Americans against Anglo abuse. Garza's activities drew the unfavorable attention of authorities on both sides of the Rio Grande, and he became the target of political harassment and even assassination attempts. A newspaper article by Garza resulted in his arrest for libel; the subject of Garza's article, a local Anglo customs inspector, later shot and seriously wounded Garza. Texas Rangers then arrested Garza on charges of conspiracy to commit murder while his assailant went free.	. . .

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