RUI: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928

长期以来，针对墨西哥人的平民暴力一直是西南边境地区历史上的一个地方性因素。尽管在边境两边的墨西哥人社区和一些学者中得到广泛认可，但针对墨西哥人的暴民暴力的历史在很大程度上是未知的。大多数关于私刑的学术著作都集中在非裔美国人身上。除了非洲裔美国人之外，没有哪个少数群体遭受私刑的人数比墨西哥人多。虽然南部各州存在一些私刑受害者的清单，但目前没有墨西哥私刑受害者的清单。这个项目——分析针对墨西哥人的暴民暴力的规模和影响——将挑战对种族暴力和西方暴力的传统理解。该合作研究将能够构建两个重要的数据库。其中一个将包括墨西哥私刑受害者，另一个将保存涉及死刑犯罪和墨西哥人的刑事法庭记录数据。除了建立这两个数据库外，主要研究人员还将通过阅读数百封信件、回忆录、报纸、组织文件和清单、政府记录、外交信函、口头采访和其他当代记录来加深他们对这一主题的理解。这项研究的结果将通过罗文大学主办的一个网站在学术会议上传播，并通过出版关于这一主题的专著。

Civilian violence against Mexicans has long been an endemic element of the history of the Southwest Borderlands. Although widely recognized in the Mexican community on both sides of the border, and among some scholars, the history of mob violence against Mexicans is largely unknown. Most of the scholarly works on lynching focus on African Americans. Next to African Americans, no minority group suffered lynching in greater numbers than did Mexicans. Although several inventories of lynching victims exist for southern states, no inventory of Mexican lynching victims currently exists. This project -- an analysis of the scale and impact of mob violence against Mexicans -- will challenge traditional understandings of racial violence and of violence in the West. The collaborative study will enable construct two significant databases. One will consist of Mexican lynching victims, and the other will hold data on criminal court records involving capital crimes and Mexicans. In addition to constructing the two databases, the principal investigators will enhance their understanding of the subject through the reading of hundreds of letters, memoirs, newspapers, organizational files and inventories, government records, diplomatic correspondence, oral interviews, and other contemporary records. The results of this research will be disseminated at scholarly conferences, via a website hosted by Rowan University, and through the publication of a monograph on the subject.