Gods, Gachupines and Gringos Quotes

“European revolutions followed textbooks—Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man, Karl Marx’ Communist Manifesto or Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf—while Mexicans wrote their texts after the fighting was over.”
― Richard Grabman, Gods, Gachupines and Gringos: A People's History of Mexico

“D. H. Lawrence saw a very different México and had very different ideas about race. Unlike the others, the British writer spoke only rudimentary Spanish and had very little contact with even English speaking Mexicans. With his wealthy wife’s money, Lawrence toured the country in a rented limousine, looking at archaeological sites and visiting other English speakers. He then holed up in the Hotel Monte Carlo in Mexico City to write a novel about México that propounded his racist theories.”
― Richard Grabman, Gods, Gachupines and Gringos: A People's History of Mexico

“The world’s first gay rights demonstration was held in Mexico City’s Alameda Park in 1901. Felix’ men invaded the Alameda, rounded everyone up and sent them to the death farms.[89]”
― Richard Grabman, Gods, Gachupines and Gringos: A People's History of Mexico

“Bartolomé de las Casas had invented actuary science in the early 16th century by studying what happened when you forced people to move from one environment to another—they died. Which was apparently the intended result in the Yaqui’s case. Like Hitler’s victims, the Yaquis were forced into overloaded cattle cars, transported across the country (with many dying along the way) and forced to work until they died. As with the Nazi camps, the Yaquis were housed in overcrowded barracks, underfed and worked until they dropped dead. In a final comparison with the Nazis, the bodies were then cremated.”
― Richard Grabman, Gods, Gachupines and Gringos: A People's History of Mexico

“With Mexican history, as with Mexican cuisine, it’s sometimes best not to inquire about the actual ingredients too closely.”
― Richard Grabman, Gods, Gachupines and Gringos: A People's History of Mexico