The History of American Statebuilding

Abstract

Kelly Lytle Hernández ’ s Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands is a compelling history of the Mexican radicals who traversed Mexico and the United States at the turn of the twentieth century and inspired the Mexican Revolution. Lytle Hernández convincingly shows how Ricardo Flores Magón and a band of Mexican socialists and anarchists inspired one of the great social revolutions of the twentieth century. In fact, Bad Mexicans makes clear how the Magonistas and the Mexican Revolution are essential to understanding the U.S