| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.3

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Book Review

Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans. By Benjamin Heber Johnson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 260 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, index. $30.00.)

Although Harvard professor and noted alarmist Samuel P. Huntington has worried for years that the Hispanicization of the Southwest threatens to spawn an irredentist movement among Mexicans living there, Benjamin Johnson's superb new book reminds us that just such a rebellion actually occurred in south Texas in the early twentieth century. Exasperated by growing Anglo economic and political domination in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and inspired by the ideals of the Mexican Revolution, ethnic Mexicans launched the Plan de San Diego uprising in 1915, calling for—among other things—the killing of all white males over 16 and the establishment of an independent republic in lands taken from Mexico by the U. S. in 1848. The short-lived revolution consisted of sporadic attacks on the chief symbols of Anglo power in south Texas, including railroads and even a division of the massive King Ranch, before the Texas Rangers crushed the resistance in 1916, killing hundreds—perhaps thousands—of innocent Mexicans in the process.

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