University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. 256 p. acknow., intro., biblio., illus., maps, tables. ISBN: 0-8061-2433-4. Cloth

Synopsis
" During the early twentieth century, social and political unrest along the border between Mexico and the United States led to a dramatic uprising known as the Plan of San Diego, by which Mexicans and Mexican Americans sought to liberate Texas from American rule by exterminating all adult North American males in the lower Rio Grande Valley.
In Mexico, Villistas, Zapatistas, and Constitucionalistas had been firing national pride in an effort to bring down the old order epitomized by Porfirio Diaz’s alliances with U.S. interests. In South Texas, the bicultural social fabric of the old ranching society had been unraveling as advances in irrigation technology and new opportunities for profit created a class of powerful Anglo landowners and an ethnically polarized society.
Amid this ferment, the Flores Magon brothers came of age. Activists and later anarchists through long years of exile in California, eventually they enlarged their political attacks to encompass economic exploitation and ethnic discrimination against the down-trodden of the southwestern United States. Using a Spanish-language newspaper, Regeneracion, they acquired a wide spectrum of adherents, from wealthy aristocrats through the railroad workers of Los Angeles to campesinos in the Borderlands. Domestic partisans included Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and African Americans; foreign participants included Mexican revolutionary factions and German and Japanese operatives.
The story of Rebellion in the Borderlands involves questions of why men and women take up arms, who fights and who waits, what is risked and what sought when a segment of workers seeks redress of grievances. Sandos’s is a ground-breaking attempt to recover a historical memory, long repressed in both the United States and Mexico, of an early twentieth-century anarchist movement that brought the two countries to the brink of war in the summer of 1916 and, for almost seventy years since, has colored official American attitudes toward Mexico."