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 This is a witches' stew of hatred, fear , Xenophobia , racism , American Exceptionalism and  White Nationalism and the Biden administrations failure or its unspoken policy deporting asylum seekers indiscriminately by any means necessary in violation of International Law and Human Decency though these days human decency , compassion , empathy or doing the right thing is considered weakness . 

One of my interests is distinguishing between national myths and historical myths . These are stories people tell sometimes even scholars lend weight to baseless myths being passed off as history . One of the major persistent and pernicious American myths is that of "The Battle Of The Alamo " So studying the Alamo one needs to gain the context . The context includes American and Mexican history and of Slavery . 

There is in American history some two centuries or more of violence along the southern border against Mexican and later immigrants and asylum seekers . The tensions rose around the time that Mexico abolished slavery and granted all of its citizens no matter color / race equality and freedom in its new enlightened constitution that put into practice and policy those ideals the US talked about but failed to realize. The US constitution was based more upon property rights than the rights of all persons inhabiting the 13 colonies. The Americans fought at The Alamo in what became Texas because the Mexican government insisted the Americans in the Mexican territory give up their slaves . So once we get past the Myth of the Alamo and come to grips with the reality and real history of the Alamo and ignore the Disney version these men seem a lot less noble or heroic as they are made out to be . The men in the Alamo were slave holders, slave traders , land speculators , thieves , murderers and so composed a rag tag militia who fought the Mexican army and lost as they tried to escape in the middle of the night. So the Battle for the Alamo in 1824 was where these American slave holders stood their ground to defend slavery and inequality and to attempt to steal land from Mexico . The Americans in 1846 invaded Mexico committing a thousand atrocities killing tens of thousands of Mexican civilians and raping Mexican women . This was the beginning of a US military solution to any diplomatic issue that is by Gun Boat diplomacy , or by the gun and power and bullying and so followed expansionism , colonization , conquest , Imperialism , euphemistically called " Manifest Destiny " or as Christians proclaimed in the Crusades that " God Wills It " . The violence of the Men at the Alamo and during the war was steeped in racism and xenophobia .

From the time of the Mexican American War the USA has viewed all of Mexico and South America and the Caribbean as its backyard which the Americans must control and even intervenes in these states whenever they are seen as becoming too liberal or democratic or egalitarian ie Chile , Guatemala , Honduras , Haiti, Dominican Republic , Cuba , Venezuela , Nicaragua etc .

After the Civil War the government created Border patrols and enlisted KKK and pro-confederates and were given a license to use rough justice or frontier justice , beatings, threats and lynching or summary executions . So hatred , fear , xenophobia and racism was the basis of the border policies .

America then and now is still on the Wrong Side Of History promoting racism and xenophobia and ignoring International Law .

Here's some books I would recommend :

* Exodus From The Alamo : The Anatomy of The Last Stand Myth by Philip Thomas Tucker

* The Injustice Never Leaves You : Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas by Monica Munoz Martinez , Pub. 2020

* The Birth of Modern Mexico 1780-1824 by Christon I. Archer Pub . 2007 .

* The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism : The Roots of Slavery , White Supremacy , and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and The Caribbean , by Gerald Horne Pub. 2018 .

* The Counter-Revolution of 1776 : Slave Resistance And The Origins of The United States Of America , by Gerald Horne Pub. 2014.

* Confronting Black Jacobins : The United States , The Haitian Revolution And The Origins of The Dominican Republic , by Gerald Horne Pub. 2015 .

* A Wicked War : Polk , Clay , Lincoln and the 1846 Invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenberg ,Pub. 2013 .

* The Mexican Wars of Independence by Timothy Henderson , Pub. 2007 .

* The Black Jacobins : Toussaint L' Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James 1963 / 1989 .

* Americ's Forgotten First War For Slavery and The Genesis of The Alamo : A New Look at the Texas Revolution 1835-1836 ,Vol. 1 and 2 , A by Philip Thomas Tucker ,Pub. 2017 .

 

Updated: books on The Lost Cause Myth , Racism , White nationalism USA

 Updated Sept. 18, 2021 . 

* Alexander , Michelle :            The New Jim Crow ; Mass Incarceration in the Age of  

Colorblindness , Pub. 2011 .

* Applebaum , Anne :                Twilight of Democracy : The Seductive Lure Of  

  Authoritarianism , Pub. 2020 .

* Balko, Radley :                       Rise of the Warrior Cop; The Militarization of America's

   Police Forces, Pub. 2014.

* Baptist, Edward E :                 The Half Has Never Been Told : Slavery and the Making of 

   American Capitalism  , Pub. 2014.

* Belew, Kathleen :                     Bring The War Home : The White Power Movement And

   Paramilitary America , PUB. 2018 .

* Ben-Ghiat Ruth :                       Strongmen : Mussolini To The Present , Pub. 2020. 

* Beverley, James A. :                  The QANON Deception ; Everything You Need To Know 

 About The World's Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theory , Pub. 2020 .

* Blackmon, Douglas A. :             Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of  

  Black Americans From The Civil War to World War II, Pub. 2008.

* Bonekemper III , Edward D. :   The Myth of The Lost Cause : Why the South Fought  

  The Civil War and why the north won , Pub. 2015 .     

* Churchwell, Sarah :                   Behold America : A History of America First and The American Dream ,  Pub. 2018.

* Cox, Karen L. :                          Dixie's Daughters : The United Daughters of The Confederacy and the preservation of Confederate Culture , Pub. 2003 .

* Daniel, Pete :                              The Shadow of Slavery : Peonage in the South, Pub. 1972.

* Domby , Adam H. :                    The False Cause : Fraud , Fabrication And White Supremacy In Confederate Memory , Pub. 2020 .

* Dray , Philip :                            " At The Hands Of Persons Unknown ": The Lynching of 

Black America , Pub. 2003 .

* Foner , Eric :                               The Second Founding : How The Civil War and  

Reconstruction Remade The Constitution  , Pub. 2019 .

* Gallagher , Gary W. 

and Alan T. Nolan editors:           The Myth of The Lost Cause and Civil War History ,

Pub. 2003 .            

* Gates , Robert Louis Jr. :          Stony The Road : Reconstruction , White Supremacy , 

and The Rise of Jim Crow , Pub, 2019 .

* Guerrero , Jean :                       Hate Monger : Stephen Miller , Donald Trump, And The White Nationalist Agenda  , Pub. 2020. 

* Hinton , Elizabeth :                   From The War on Poverty To The War On Crime ; The Making Of Mass Incarceration  In America , Pub. 2016 .

* Hodgson, Godfrey:                    The Myth Of American Exceptionalism, Pub. 2009.

* Horne , Gerald  :                      The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism : The Roots of Slavery , White Supremacy , and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and The Caribbean , Pub. 2018 .   

*  Horne , Gerald  :                     The Counter-Revolution of 1776 : Slave Resistance And The Origins of The United States Of America  , Pub. 2014.

* Horne , Gerald :                        Confronting Black Jacobins : The United States , The Haitian Revolution And The Origins of The Dominican Republic , Pub. 2015 .

* Jackson , Sam :                         Oath Keepers ; Patriotism and The Edge Of Violence in A 

 Right-Wing Anti-government Group, Pub. 2020. 

* Johnson, Daryl :                       HateLand : A Long , Hard Look At America's Extremist Heart , Pub. 2019.

* Jordan, Winthrop D.               The White Man's Burden : Historical Origins of racism in the  United States , Pub. 1974.

* Karp , Matthew :  This Vast Southern Empire : Slaveholders At The Helm of 

   American Foreign Policy , Pub. 2016 .

* Kendi , Ibram X. :                   Stamped From The Beginning : The Definitive History of Racist Ideas In America ,  Pub. 2016 & 2017 .

* Kuhl : Stefan :                          The Nazi Connection; Eugenics, American Racism and German National Socialism , Pub. 1994.

* Lee , Erika :                               America For Americans : A History of Xenophobia in The United States , Pub. 2019 .

* Levin , Kevin M. :                      Searching For Black Confederates : The Civil War's Most     Persistent Myth , Pub. 2019 .

* Levitsky , Steven And 

Daniel Ziblatt                 :              How Democracies Die , Pub. 2018 .

* Loewen , James W. And 

Edward H. Sebesta  :                    The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader; The " Great Truth " About the " Lost Cause ", Pub. 2010 .    

* Martinez , Monica Munoz :      The Injustice Never Leaves You : Anti-Mexican Violence In Texas  , Pub. 2018 .  

* Maurantonio , Nicole :              Confederate Exceptionalism ; Civil War Myth And Memory In The Twenty-First Century , Pub. 2019 .

* Moulitsas, Markos

 (founder of Daily Kos) :              American Taliban: how War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind 

   Jihadists and the Radical Right, Pub. 2010.

* Muhammad , Khalil Gibran :  The Condemnation of Blackness ; Race , Crime , and the  

  Making of Modern Urban America , Pub. 2010 .

* Neiwert, David :                       The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, Pub. 2009.

* Neiwert , David :                      Alt-America : The Rise of the Radical Right In The Age Of  Trump , Pub. 2017 .

* Richardson , Heather Cox :       How The South Won The Civil War ; Oligarchy , Democracy And The Continuing Fight For The Soul Of America , Pub. 2020 .  

* Saini , Angela :                        Superior: The return of Race Science .Pub. 2019 .

* Seidel, Andrew L. :                 The Founding Myth : Why Christian Nationalism Is 

   Un-American , PUB . 2019 .

* Sexton , Jared Yates :              American Rule ; How A Nation Conquered The World But      Failed It's People , Pub. 2020 .

* Sirvent , Roberto and

 Danny Haiphong  :                    American Exceptionalism and American Innocence : 

   A People's History of Fake News - From The Revolutionary War to the War on Terror , Pub.  2019.

* Stern , Alexandra Minna :     Proud Boys And The White Ethnostate ; How The

  Alt- Right is Warping The American Imagination , Pub. 2019.

* Stevens , Stuart :                     It Was All A Lie : How The Republican Party Became  

Donald Trump , Pub. 2020 . 

* Stewart , Katherine :              The Power Worshipers : Inside The Dangerous Rise of 

Religious Nationalism , Pub. 2019 .

* Sussman , Robert Wald :       The Myth Of Race : The Troubling Persistence of An Unscientific Idea  , Pub. 2014 .

* Tenold , Vegas :                      Everything You Love Will Burn : Inside The rebirth of White Nationalism in America  , Pub. 2018 .

* Weisbrot, Robert:                  Freedom Bound ; A History of America's Civil Rights  

   Movement,  Pub. 1990. 

* Wells-Barnett , Ida B. :          On Lynching , Pub. originally in 1892 republished 2014 . 

* Whitman , James G. :            Hitler's American Model ; The United States and The Making Of Nazi Race Law , Pub. 2018.

* Wilson , Charles Reagan :     Baptized In Blood : The Religion Of The Lost Cause , 

 Pub. 1980 .

Zucchino , David :                     Wilmington's Lie : The Murderous Coup of 1898 And The Rise Of  White Supremacy  , Pub. 2020 .

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