Hernández, Kelly Lytle

OUR SYNOPSIS: Kelly Lytle Hernández demonstrates how the Mexican Revolution remade both Mexico and the United States from its nineteenth-century origins to the revolution itself in the 1910s. She emphasizes the revolution’s restoration of democracy to Mexico and the large number of Mexicans it pushed northward, who became “the first generation of Mexican Americans.” (7) She centers Ricardo Flores Magón’s public opposition to Porfirio Díaz’s U.S.-backed reign through his newspaper Regeneración at the turn of the nineteenth century as building support for the cause that became the magonistas. She shows Regeneración’sleaders expanded their work by creating an anti-Díaz political party called the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM), which adopted a pro-labor platform, militarized, and greatly contributed to the Mexican Revolution. Hernández makes clear that the PLM and magonistas must been seen as transnational revolutionaries who reshaped Mexico and the U.S.