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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Benjamin Heber Johnson. Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans. (Western Americana Series.) New Haven: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. 260. $30.00.

An extraordinary episode of violence erupted along the Texas-Mexico border that reached its zenith in 1915–1917 and was repressed in the historical memory of both countries. Largely justified by the Plan de San Diego (PSD), named for a small Texas town where it had allegedly originated, a group of Tejanos had launched an uprising against the newly emerging Anglo economic and social order that was displacing them in South Texas. Initially calling for a liberation of races and peoples by waging a war of extermination against all male Anglos over the age of sixteen, the purpose of the rising was to create a new republic from the territory of the Mexican Cession that might later align itself with Mexico. A separate republic for Negroes would be created adjacent to the new republic, and Indians would have their tribal lands restored. Within two months of its proclamation, the PSD was revised on February 20, 1915, making it unmistakably an anarchist document. Accepting the earlier iteration, it now proclaimed the social war of the downtrodden proletariat against the forces of capitalism with the "Liberating Army of Races and Peoples," promising to deliver cultivated land to the disinherited confiscated from their exploiters.

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