"Wild tongues can't be tamed": Rumor, racialized sexuality, and the 1917 Bath Riots in the US-Mexico borderlands
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On 28 January 1917, a group of women led by seventeen-year-old Carmelita Torres defied quarantine orders at the US-Mexico border, where Mexican-heritage people were required to undergo delousing. According to local and national coverage of the protest, rumors ... ...
