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Hernandez, Jose Angel

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Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Humanities & Fine Arts
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Hernandez
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Jose Angel
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Latin America
Mexican American Studies
Mexico
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Subaltern Studies
US Borderlands
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Professor Hernández has taught at DePaul University, The University of Chicago, and The University of Massachusetts. His research focuses on repatriated Mexicans during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He has published articles in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies and Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, as well as Landscapes of Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal Devoted to the Study of Violence, Conflict, and Trauma.
His current book is entitled Mexican American Colonization During the Nineteenth Century: A History of the US-Mexico Borderlands. The book historicizes Mexican efforts to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States in the aftermath of a war that entailed the loss of half the nation’s territory.
He has received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Trustee Fellowship, Fulbright-Hayes Dissertation Fellowship, and The Center for Mexican American Studies Fellowship from The University of Houston. Since his time at UMASS, Hernández has received a Lilly Teaching Fellowship and has also been a Center for Public Policy & Administration Workshop Fellow. Currently he is the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latina/o Studies Faculty Fellow for the academic year 2011.
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    Violence as Communication: The Revolt of La Ascensión, Chihuahua (1892)
    (2012-03-09) Hernandez, Jose Angel
    When examining “The Revolt of La Ascensión, 1892” past historiographical interpretations serve as examples of the theoretical traps that are succumbed to when employing modes of analysis that are inappropriate for studying this particular repatriate colony. The trope that is read throughout these historiographical examples is evident because they share the notion that this event can be termed pre-political and primitive. It will become patently clear that terms such as “pre-political,” “primitive,” and “unorganized” are outdated and require alternative methods of postcolonial analysis. As way to contradict and compliment this scant literature, the following examines the revolt of La Ascensión in 1892 by analyzing heretofore unexamined regional and federal archives that discuss this event in some detail. After glossing over the details of this event and the brutal killing of three government officials in this repatriate colony, I proceed to examine the state’s efforts at quelling this rebellion and their attempt to capture and extradite those rebels that migrated back to the US with the argument that they were not Mexican citizens, but American citizens that earlier migrated to the colony after an election riot twenty years earlier. Research in regional archives, more importantly, provide for a closer reading of the material, particularly coroner’s reports that detail the various ways in which the victims were tortured and executed. Given the historical background that led to these events, I suggest that the violent events of this particular revolt can be read as expressions of frustration, anger, and therefore constitute a form of communication.