@article{ref1,
title="“Rousers of the Rabble” in the New Mexico Land Grant War: La Alianza Federal De Mercedes and the Violence of the State",
journal="Antipode",
year="2008",
author="Correia, David",
volume="40",
number="4",
pages="561-583",
abstract="Abstract:  This paper examines the patterns of state-sponsored and state-tolerated violence directed at a social movement organization in New Mexico known as La Alianza Federal de Mercedes during the 1960s and 1970s. Beginning in the 1960s, Alianza mobilized a broad-based movement of Chicano activists and Hispano land grant communities to advocate the return of lands they claimed had been stolen following the Mexican American War of 1846–1848. As a result, its leaders and many of its members became targets of law enforcement surveillance programs and counterintelligence operations. In this paper I examine the patterns of surveillance and physical violence directed at Alianza members. Confronted by Alianza's challenge to racial inequality and economic injustice, the state construed Alianza as a generalized, and racialized, threat to social order that required in response the use of coercive control and physical violence.<p />",
language="",
issn="0066-4812",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-8330.2008.00624.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2008.00624.x"
}